Who do you all think are more fun protagonists to write? Male or female protags. I have written both, but for whatever reason, I have more female protagonists and think they are more fun to write.
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Kalisa, you may be correct about "Star Wars" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ". But it's important to note the the writers who pitched and got the go ahead based on their synopsis were establi...
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Thank you Marcus! I knew but wasn't absolutely sure on how much I knew about this rarity.
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID was William Goldman's first original screenplay, according to Screenplayology. http://www.screenplayology.com/2011/09/01/review-butch-cassidy-and-the-s......
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It was Pj. And it was his third produced screenplay. He adapted Victor Canning's novel "Castle Minerva" in 1965 and Ross Macdonald's "Harper" in 1966. Before that he had written a play that was produc...
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William Martell
- 11 years ago
And Goldman was a best selling novelist... who'd had a bunch of his novels bought and made into movies. Robert Redford bought FATHER'S DAY and it was never made, but was a hot project.
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DL you raise a great point and thanks for the insight. I would say my lady protags are dynamic and most certainly flawed.
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To answer your original question....it's all fun!
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Like your philosophy Bill.
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I don't think the gender matters. I believe the personality matters more. At the same time i think giving a female character a personality or type or role that is normally male is very interesting and vice versa
Like you I most often have female protagonists. It just come down to being more of a challenge. When I was in college they kept saying to just write a male character and then change the name to a female. I never, ever, ever, once did that.