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Gran Torino (2008)
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DZ-3: Making Unlikeable Protagonists Compelling
How do you keep an audience watching a character everyone in the film hates?
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Stu and Chas tackle the first 20 pages of HOT FUZZ, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GROUNDHOG DAY and try to work out what stops these a-holes protoganist from pushing the audience out of the movie… →
Films:
Hot Fuzz (2007)
, As Good as It Gets (1997)
, Groundhog Day (1993)
, Gran Torino (2008)
, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)