Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 2: The Protagonist’s Arc
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6 min readAug 27, 2020
Transformation lies at the heart of the Hero’s Journey.
As we prepare for the 2020 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge, which begins September 1, a five-part series on Screenwriting Back to Basics.
Today: The Protagonist’s Arc.
In almost all mainstream Hollywood movies as well as most indie films, the Protagonist character or characters go through some type of personal metamorphosis. It is no surprise this is the case. Joseph Campbell who studied thousands upon thousands of…
