Vampires, Crime and Angels...Eclectic Me
I don’t know about you, but I’ve watched a handful of films and TV shows, recently, where the plot progression is stagnated, by a character’s stupidity. I don’t mean that the character comes across stupid or is actually stupid; I mean that the little things the characters say or do (or don’t do) make them look stupid, when they’re not.
I’m about to use the film ‘A Novel Romance’ as an example and I’m going to dissect the film, to show you what I mean. Overall, I like the film, but the characters are real examples of how good characters can come across as stupid, from sloppy writing, or silly plot/dialogue.
** THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD **
In this one film I’m watching, as I write, the MC is a male writer, who publishes under a pseudonym, because his parents were famous. His pen-name is a mysterious character, who no-one has…
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