Sometimes it’s simply about giving everyone something to want, something realistic, and then setting them on their paths. Stardust, the Neil Gaiman-inspired movie, does a great job of giving characters real desires and then setting them at odds with each other. If you are writing science fiction or fantasy, even well-developed characters function at half-power [...]
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Stardust Shines: Character Motivation-ism 3 comments
How not to write Fantasy: The Forbidden Kingdom 2 comments
The movie is based on one of the oldest known novels, Journey to the West, a Chinese Epic. Written down finally in the 1590s from oral stories dating much farther back, it’s 100 chapters long and is one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature, so any screenwriter would have challenges in writing up [...]
