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Finally,  here is the second part of my interview with Michael Hauge in which he talks about favourite movies that break with his own structural principles, how emotion relates to anticipation and about the choice to follow “Hollywood structure” or not.

Are you struggling with a passive protagonist? Let’s look into what causes a character to be passive.

A hero is not ‘active’ because he is constantly running, fighting, arguing etc. A hero is not ‘passive’ because he is never running, fighting, arguing etc.

“The finest writing not only reveals true character,
but arcs or changes to that inner nature, for better or worse.”
-Robert McKee

In 1998 McKee signed my first edition hardback of STORY. He wrote:

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