Categories: Action
A crazed sidekick searching for a new villain sets her sights on a mild-mannered journalist with a powerful secret.
I haven't read through the whole thread, so some of this may have been covered - sorry.
Defining the protagonist as "...crazed..." is risky. Most good protagonists are characters people can empathize with, and crazy is not something viewers will easily accept. There are rare exceptions (Joker, American Psycho, A Clock Work Orange, etc...), however, most of these are based on pre-existing IP and usually have a known creative team behind them. It might be best to redefine the protagonist as desperate or aspiring instead.
Furtherless:
It seems to me that having her uber-boss get caught and imprisoned is a too easy reversal, a? lucky break.? And nothing should be easy for the protagonist.? The antagonist gets all the lucky breaks in drama, the protagonist gets none.? A protagonist must earn success the old fashioned way, through hard effort, suffering and persistence.
It might make for an entire movie by itself for the sidekick protege to plot, to connive, to struggle to overthrow her boss.? An origin story, perhaps.
fwiw
Furtherless:
It seems to me that having her uber-boss get caught and imprisoned is a too easy reversal, a? lucky break.? And nothing should be easy for the protagonist.? The antagonist gets all the lucky breaks in drama, the protagonist gets none.? A protagonist must earn success the old fashioned way, through hard effort, suffering and persistence.
It might make for an entire movie by itself for the sidekick protege to plot, to connive, to struggle to overthrow her boss.? An origin story, perhaps.
fwiw
