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Rebel Ridge (2024)

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DZ-122: Escalating Antagonism Across Genres

How can you apply horror ideas to action and comedy?

AI✦Applies the TOMBS framework (Transgression–Omens–Manifestation–Banishment–Slumber) across Rebel Ridge’s five-act structure, mapping the protagonist’s banishment at the midpoint as the turning point that escalates the conflict into the film’s second half.✦

⏱ 1h 44m

Character · Structure · Genre | 1 OCT 2025

Listen to learn how thinking of your hero as the horror (for your villains) makes your script dynamic.

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In this episode Chas, Stu and guest Kim Ho continue their exploration into the power(s) of antagonism and how focusing on them can develop story… →

Films: Rebel Ridge (2024) , Meet The Parents (2000)

Character: Character Motivation , Moral Complexity , Character Agency , Antiheroes , Character Depth , Internal Journey

Structure: Antagonism , TOMBS Cycle , Escalation , Midpoints

Genre: Genre Translation , Genre Conventions

"There’s a great line from Don Johnson later where he says, the deal was fair. The issue is that you felt that you were allowed to offer it. He tells him that he has transgressed against the rules of the laws or the rules of this system of this world."

— chas | DZ-122: Escalating Antagonism Across Genres