Sunday, November 23, 2008

MM’s Unsympathetic Protag Survey


Hey guys,

My next article for
Script, which is due mid-December for the March/April issue, is all about unsympathetic protagonists.

And I’d like to ask my brilliant readers out there to share with me their favorite unsympathetic protags. I’m already planning to write about Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), Salieri (Amadeus), Phil Connors (Groundhog Day), Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (The Lives of Others), Michael Corleone (maybe from The Godfather), Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood), and one of my favs, the
Diabolical Don G.

I tried to highlight the biggies that everyone would recognize.

But how many other unsympathetic protags can you think of?

-MM