tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post8998006383157167317..comments2024-03-29T03:44:30.259-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: Storyteller’s Rulebook #11: Sympathetic Doesn't Have To Mean LikableMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-24971593443488275822014-01-08T19:19:22.705-05:002014-01-08T19:19:22.705-05:00Your presentation of the unlikeable lead character...Your presentation of the unlikeable lead character brought flashbacks of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.<br /><br />By about the third book I was hoping that someone, somehow, would kill Richard Rahl and rid the poor reader of the ordeal of reading his 20 pages of objectivist prose every time the writer wanted him to say something.<br /><br />JasonDuke of Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891442161634560912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-80008444539164170452010-04-29T18:46:57.897-04:002010-04-29T18:46:57.897-04:00Good point, Elliott. As you point out, my comment...Good point, Elliott. As you point out, my comments apply specifically to subsequent viewings (or first time viewings if you already know the twist).Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-13543355320294831032010-04-29T15:23:34.049-04:002010-04-29T15:23:34.049-04:00Elliott Kalan said....
The only flaw with what yo...Elliott Kalan said....<br /><br />The only flaw with what you're saying here is that if "Psycho" is watched as the makers intended, you don't know that Norman has killed Marion at this point. You think that his mother did it, and that he's now covering up her crime to protect her. So you can also make a character doing something unlikable sympathetic if he's doing it FOR A REASON that the audience finds sympathetic. You are right, though, in that even now, when everybody knows Norman did it even if they haven't seen the movie, they still root for that car to sink.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-15876312964743390352010-04-27T22:32:38.685-04:002010-04-27T22:32:38.685-04:00The opposite of Truffaut's theory is the idea ...The opposite of Truffaut's theory is the idea (from a war photographer--I forget which one) that all war photography becomes anti-war. Once viewers see what war really is, they are repulsed.christine Birdnoreply@blogger.com