Creating Empathy for Secondary Characters | Robert McKee Answers

Original Post Date: September 8th, 2011 - What happens when a secondary character touches the audience more than the protagonist does? In this clip, Robert McKee teaches the benefits and dangers of allowing supporting characters to draw more empathy than your protagonist.

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In ‘To Live and Die in LA’ the partner to the protagonist, Vukovich takes over and drives the story to the conclusion and has his own arc

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Hi Robert! Just wanted to thank you so much for your work, your knowledge is invaluable and I am so grateful you have shared it with all us screenwriters. I just got managers and am re-working all my scripts and have found your book Story to be essential in identifying the problems and finding solutions to them. Very grateful for you!