The Nature Of Conflict (Part 2)
MORAL IMPERATIVES AS CONFLICT Many war films, especially those about Vietnam, feature moral dilemmas that the characters have to face and deal with. Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Deerhunter for example, put characters in untenable situations of conflict between their duty and their conscience. In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen’s character (Captain Benjamin Willard) is […]
The Nature Of Conflict (Part 1)
Everyone knows conflict. It’s the drum beat of our lives many day and the lifeblood of our writing always. Audiences are a hundred times more interested in any work of fiction if there’s conflict. Even most non-fiction pieces revolve around interesting, read as conflict-filled, moments. But how do we set up and maximize conflict in […]
