Writing Heroes And Villains - Donald F. Glut
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2023
- Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC. Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second "Star Wars" movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs "traditional-style" horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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A hero is nothing without a villain and villain is nothing without a hero.
Imma be honest, only know this cause of Megamind 💀
“You! You complete me!”
@@Doggieworld3Show The Dark Knight(2008)
No Country For Old Men’s Anton Chigurh was a refreshingly new and unique kind of movie villain.
He was menacing yet i found myself laughing at alot of scenes of the guy he was chasing. That film made me a huge fan of the Coen brothers....had been sleeping on their talent for decades. The Big Lebowski made me cry laugh as did Burn After Reading(made me a huge fan of John Malcovich). Their humor is uniquely satisfying...nothing else like it.
I'm becoming such a fan of Mr. Glut!! The video which intro'ed me to him was your channel's posted interview with Glut, where Glut describes a process of comic-creating. His participation in comics is what drew me in (and any additional videos on those... not-so-subtle quite-so-shameless request :) , but he's also just a great interview/information-source in general. Thank you so much for sharing these!
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Without a villain, there's no conflict and no story.
How much does the villain make or break the story's hero?
He makes the story by instigating the conflict
@@chasehedges6775 Christoph Waltz’ Blofeld easily springs to mind.
@@mikebasil4832 Raoul Silva in Skyfall(2012) is better, honestly
It’s just as important. There is no hero without the adversary.
I've been a fan of your channel for a long time. I'd love to see S.S. Rajamouli on the channel! He has written many good vs evil characters, both nuanced and larger than life.
That Errol Flynn robin hood was like the movie of my childhood, I still remember the final fight
Stories where the villain wins is called the news.
I felt Heath Ledger's Joker won in 2008's The Dark Knight.
Good points. Something interesting i found in many modern stories is how they reverse cast the hero to be dark & the villain to be more light.
Batman vs Joker was the first time i saw it contrary to most super heroes but ive since seen it trend since the 90s. The hero is often the anti hero who has a dark sense of humor & the villain is clean cut & otherwise respectful if not for XYZ.
Ive seen the hero often be the outcast where as the villain is beloved by the people or even operating out of the church or some otherwise righteous order. They even do it where the villain is angelic vs the hero who uses black magic & demons to win.
Japan tends to play on this stuff alot in anime & manga. Ive seen it so often that i tend to suspect the opposite queues from eras before my time when wanting to predict how the story plays out today.
Predictability has become pretty boring in this age of over saturated consumption of stories. Sometimes its still satisfying when the villain looks villainous but its almost always satisfying when you get tricked & the villainous looking guy ends up being a major help against the actual villain. Even biblically we are warned that the devil will appear like an angel of light, not red with a pitch fork giving you every chance to avoid his schemes.
To be as shrewd as a serpent ends up being the only true way to defeat him....thats why Batman type heroes resonate & come off more believable(because his dark past made him also lose his mind, but rather than do evil, he is hellbent on striking fear in the villains whoms complex minds he can perceive to their shock or otherwise satisfaction having "met their match").
Yes the Hero needs the Villain so they can *be more than they are* before they start their journey
Most great Villains are in some fashion and at some level a direct foil for the Heroes. Sometimes it's obvious, the way the Villain looks or acts like the Hyde to the Hero's Jeckyl... Sometimes it's less obvious, being carved to the core somewhere, like Luthor's mental aptitude to Superman's strength and shear durability.
What gets tiresome is when the writer just has TOO MUCH FUN writing up the villain, and traps him or her self into flattening the hero out. What I mean by that, is based on the ideal that a hero "has to make the right choices when it counts"... That can be tough to write, because you HAVE to create a REASON for him to make that decision when the time comes, and too often writers are tempted to shore it up by being timid about letting the hero "loosen up" instead of being the vanilla flavored "goody-two-shoes".It's relatively minor (as cited in the video) because "Heroes can be pretty BLAND"... BUT it's still a mistake.
John McClain (from Diehard) for instance, NEVER EVER learns to keep his relationship together. Every single one of those movies has turmoil in his marriage up until it's divorced, because it's the same formulaic crap. That doesn't mean they're terrible movies, but it's a conspicuous problem in McClain's "heroic persona". He's a Cop, so he's GOING to charge toward the danger when everyone in their right mind is running away. He's GOING to do the right thing when the sh*t hits the fan... BUT when the writers dig for a flaw, he just can't be a supportive husband and decent father at the same time as being a "Hero Cop".
As much as I liked "Diehard"... I suspect the whole rise of "Grimdark" as a genre to the mainstream and the rampant acceptance, and even rise to chart-topping for the Anti-hero trope is from writers who are afraid to put some effort and flourish to their heroes... or maybe for the actors lacking the intestinal fortitude to sell a heroic personality or interpretation that can be a bit more FUN... Always wearing white or having blonde hair might work for psychology and all, but it's also prone to get "TIRED" after it's been done and done over... and over...
At the bottom line, we DO WANT heroes with flaws, so don't be afraid to put some real Character into a hero. It's exactly like the mistake of the psychopathically unmotivated, mustache twirler from "Snidely Whiplash" vs. "Dudley Dooright"... Real life is messy, so there's nothing wrong with a little messy fiction once in a while at least... ;o)
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This guy has never watch one punch man. XD
Specially when the villain is not a person, but a personal conflict.
for example:
Iron Man's PTSD
Peter Parker's lack of control over his personal life
batman's obsession with justice. That led him to forget about his real persona, Bruce Wayne.
the real villain is the inability to control every aspect of life
the character we call "the villain", is there to exploit the hero's flaws.
Villains win in Spaghetti Westerns, infrequently but it does happen.
Dude relies a lot on tropes...just like SJWs today, with their new, heinous cliches
I think the answers are more general and based on a template because the questions are so broad. I didn't see anything wrong with the advice