People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think is that despite this historical references, Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story.
It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.
In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.
It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.
For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested. . . )
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.
But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
