Quote: Griff @ December 10 2008, 2:21 PM GMTI went on a screenwriting course this year at The Script Factory. Gotta say, it was f**king brilliant and really gave me some good ways to think about tackling a screenplay (which is quite a daunting prospect).
Anyway this whole protagonist discussion came up, and the tutor (who was a successful screenwriter and also worked at a development exec at various big British film companies) insisted the "biggest journey" thing was straight up. I hadn't heard this before.
Example he gave was The Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins's character is virtually unchanged from start to finish. Morgan Freeman's character is transformed. So it's Morgan Freeman's story. Morgan Freeman is the protagonist. He called characters like the Tim Robbins one the "catalyst", characters who change the lives of those around them, but don't change much themselves.
Anyway, obviously there's no rules, you just take from all this stuff whatever is helpful to you.
I never saw that sitcom.
'Allo 'Allo! 'ad the most - what with the flying helmet and the celery. Or was it wet lettuce?