Writing A Movie With A Passive Main Character - Paul Joseph Gulino

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@JeanMarieMAZALEYRAT 4 года назад

For once a smart POV! There are so many reasons to choose passive protagonists: they are often the guys around whom action occurs, either they are witnesses or character at stake (The Chase, Little Big Man, Forrest Gump, A ghost story, Boyhood, American Beauty, Norman in A River Runs Through It, ...) They can also be victims (The Birds), manipulated people (I confess, The Third Man, The Graduate), change from active to passive (Psycho) or from passive to active (Vertigo), be adrift (The Passenger, Midnight Cowboy), have a personal reason for being passive (Casablanca), etc.

@cherrystar16 5 лет назад

This video came at the perfect time!! I'm in the midst of a first draft with a passive main character.. thank you Film Courage! :D

@xx_thelordandsaviour69_xx81 4 года назад

I really enjoy stories with passive main characters. I don't know why but I'm drawn to them. I love things like 'Forrest Gump' and a book called 'The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window and disappeared'. They're characters who things happen to and not characters who cause things to happen.

@ChilliFedor 5 лет назад

Perfect topic.

@whitemansucks 5 лет назад

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@bluerabbit1236 5 лет назад

Thank you so much for this. I got a feedback from the blacklist about my horror screenplay saying that although it is very scary, the hero is passive until the second half and rated me 6. I believe passive hero syndrome is genre specific. Most supernatural horror type of stuff have passive characters because you need a strong setup, have to establish characters and that takes time. The first half the characters are trying to figure out what’s happening and the second half they understand they cannot just ride it through therefore they have to fix it to get back to their normal lives or what’s left of it. And I believe this is totally acceptable for this genre as long as there’s conflict like he says or a life or death situation where the stakes are high enough to keep the audience interested. Look at the Conjuring Universe, Lights Out, Hereditary, Get Out. You don’t see active characters here up until the second half of the movie and they’re all successful. Especially Hereditary and Get Out have the most criticized structure where “stuff happens to the characters” instead of characters going out and make stuff happen. But it still works wonderfully.

@britneyspheres7yearsago11 3 года назад

Aren’t all the good examples this guy gives on “passive” protagonists are more like reactive protagonists? I feel like the characters in Hereditary are more like reactive protagonists in the first half as they react to the death in their own ways, even if it’s just avoidance like in the case of the son. I’ve heard active vs reactive vs passive protagonist terms before, and it seemed to me the first two are the only good character types, where else you could never make a good protagonist passive.

@ComicPower 3 года назад

I'm writing a script with a passive character he is an avoider but in the 3rd act he chooses to be more active. Their Is a ton of conflict. I think it works I need to get coverage on it

@ajtaylor8750 5 лет назад

Barry from "Punch Drunk Love" is a passive character. He doesn't have any interest in love, even when his sister is constantly trying to hook him up with people, and he never demands respect from his sister. However, once he falls for Lena he learns to be his own man and demand respect from everyone.

@janek.kuznik 5 лет назад

Naah, he starts being active very fast - right after meeting Lena he buys a suit, trying to impress her next time they meet. Finds an organ, wants to learn to play it. Meets his brother in law, asks for psychological help, seeing that he's not too well. It all might be subtle or inefficent and his trajectory gets clearer a bit later, but he's never really passive.

@AZZU_Speaks 5 лет назад

Can anyone help me about the role of main protagonist in dramas like arms and the man,riders to the sea..

@McLir 5 лет назад

Does Jerry Lundegaard in FARGO qualify as a passive villain?

@123rockfan 2 года назад

“He’s fleein’ the interview!”

@lonjohnson5161 5 лет назад

Rogue One has a fairly passive main character.

@circlebird8765 5 лет назад

I hear this but I'm not sure if Jyn Erso is what he's talking about. If you go by what he's saying, that every scene is a chase or an escape, then Rogue One is packed. Everyone is after something in that movie. It just seems like people don't like Rogue One because it was written with the purpose of getting from point A to point B. The writers needed to retcon how there's such a massive design flaw in the Deathstar and figure out how the rebel alliance got the plans. So the entire movie is written very plot forward instead of focusing of characterization. Just two cents from an internet stranger that enjoyed Rogue One.

@lonjohnson5161 5 лет назад

@@circlebird8765 I also enjoyed Rogue One, but Jyn Erso could have been written as a more active character. Yes, there is a ton of action, but almost none of it is due to Jyn's choices, at least in the first two thirds of the movie.

@circlebird8765 5 лет назад

@@lonjohnson5161 You're right, Jyn doesn't come alive until the third act. I think I probably just had a knee jerk reaction to defend Rogue One since it gets trashed a lot.

@terminataroma1 4 года назад

I wonder if Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are both passive characters, since they are constantly trying to evade justice (or some form of accountability). That said, I find it hard to believe that gunslingers who engage in gunfights would be considered as passive characters.