Chapter 14
Matchmaking in Movies
It’s one of your tasks, as a screenwriter, to convince us that these two people should be together. There are reasons we will root for individuals to become a couple. And there are deal breakers as well to beware of, or at least to be aware of.
If one of them is evil at heart, cruel, unloving, unworthy of love, lying, narcissistic, or in some way out to take advantage of their unsuspecting potential partner, we will not be rooting for that, obviously, unless pretty early on the damaged character shows us a glimmer of real hope for change.
Unrequited love is a perfectly legitimate form of story, but you have to be careful or the unloved one can slip into becoming either pathetic and self-pitying or a stalker. With ...
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