What can Film Noir teach us about character arcs and audience engagement?
AI✦Examines how The Long Goodbye sustains audience investment in an unlikeable protagonist through sheer narrative persistence, positioning moral compromise as the price of survival in a 1970s power structure where money and intellect--not law enforcement--hold true authority.✦
Listen if you want to write morally compromised characters without endorsing their choices.
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In this two part series, Mel and Chas use Noir (the genre) as a lens to interrogate flawed characters. How can characters doing reprehensible things still engage audiences? How can you ensure representation isn’t endorsement? And whether these characters undergo transformative arcs, or simply reveal their true natures… →
