Antagonism

"MEET THE PARENTS is more simple than Rebel Ridge or Sinners that has clear contrasting and conflicting sources of antagonism. This has multiple sources of antagonism, but they're all aligned in what they're trying to do."

"And in that way, it's more simple than Rebel Ridge or Sinners that has clear contrasting and conflicting sources of antagonism. This has multiple sources of antagonism, but they're all aligned in what they're trying to do."

"I think by us learning about this paradigm, it will help us in that development stage of stories. [...] we can actually look at the forces of antagonism in a story."

"when you use those structures that are out there, they tend to be around plot and they tend to think primarily from the protagonist's point of view. And using this system, we can actually look at the forces of antagonism in a story."

"They are using tombs to have sources of escalating antagonism. It's just not the antagonist that we're expecting coming into the film necessarily."

"Whatever the transgression is, it doesn't necessarily have to be by the protagonist, but it has to awaken the forces of antagonism."

"The Banishment is actually talking about the banishment of the sources of antagonism."

"So I think that's what's kind of interesting about this idea. The transgression actually kind of goes both ways. For an action movie, because what we're talking about is Awaking the Horror. For the characters in a movie like Rebel Ridge, which is an action movie, the monster is kind of the lead character as well."