That is the key to writing better villains. It ends up being a very black-and-white situation.īut what if you could blur those lines a bit - or at the very least, what if you could make the reader and the audience see the villain's point of view? And in the more disturbing cases (see below with the truly evil Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds), what if you could understand the evil just a bit more when you learn the unreasonable reasoning behind their horrific intentions and actions? They have evil intentions and want to harm the hero at all costs. However, villains often become one-note ponies in that respect. And raising the stakes should be every screenwriter's goal on every single page of the script. This is most evident in the exchange between Kimble and Gerard.īut let's be honest - villains are more fun to write. He's just doing his job trying to track down a convicted murderer. Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) from The Fugitive is clearly the antagonist - he is in opposition to Richard Kimble’s (Harrison Ford) escape - but he is not the villain because there are no evil intentions. Enter Now | Regular Deadline is on Dec 31, 2022
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