TAKE TWO

A good hero plus a bad villain does not a fabulous story make. Spit-shined heroes, bad-to-the-bone villains and one-note mentor characters may serve a first draft, but not a compelling story and certainly not a powerful movie.

Stories need a great hook and complex characters who weave in and out of each other’s storylines, creating a web of conflicts and opportunities for emotional growth. Every character can have their own antagonist within your story.

Let’s talk Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, a story which portrays one of the most complex protagonist/antagonist relationships in film history.

The path of least resistance would be to assume Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) saved the lives of over 1,000 Jewish people out of pure