In fact, Show Me A Hero broke the most profound rule of screenwriting, the first commandment: Thou shalt have an active main character. I want to talk about Show Me A Hero because of the way it chose to break the rules. In a miniseries like Show Me A Hero, we can actually explore these multiple storylines without diminishing our ability to serve our main character.īut the reasons I want to talk about Show Me A Hero go beyond it’s structure as miniseries, beyond its stellar cast, and beyond its extraordinary writers (David Simon of The Wire, and Paul Haggis of Crash who directed every episode).
It’s just that when we do them in a screenplay, we severely limit the number of pages we can dedicate to each character. It’s not that these things can’t be done in a screenplay. In feature films, we are limited in many ways by page count, trying to squeeze a life-changing journey into an hour and a half.īut in the world of miniseries, we actually have the one thing that most screenplays don’t have, the thing that novelists are blessed with and screenwriters long for: time.Īnd because we have time, we are able to explore structure in different ways, and fully capture things like world, complicated, intersecting storylines and multiple characters’ points of view. In a way, the miniseries is the ideal form of storytelling for a screenwriter. The genre was all but dead in the water a couple of years ago, but recently we’ve seen a resurgence in miniseries sparked by the success of True Detective. It’s an incredibly exciting time for writers of miniseries. I’m especially excited to be talking about this miniseries, because it stars Jacob Krueger Studio alum, Laura Gomez! Laura, we’re so proud of you!īut outside of our personal pride in Laura’s accomplishments, it’s worth talking about miniseries because of what writers of all genres can learn from them. Today we’re going to be talking about the new HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero. Show Me A Hero : Do You Need An Active Main Character?
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