Comments on: How to Give EXPERT Script Notes: 10 ESSENTIAL Tips https://industrialscripts.com/script-notes-ignore/ The Screenplay and Screenwriting site. Tue, 03 May 2022 09:44:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Ralph https://industrialscripts.com/script-notes-ignore/#comment-891973 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:04:51 +0000 https://industrialscripts.com/?p=217875#comment-891973 Good to know. I’ve had many of these notes.

]]> By: stuart devra https://industrialscripts.com/script-notes-ignore/#comment-875261 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 04:47:25 +0000 https://industrialscripts.com/?p=217875#comment-875261 With all due respect, your #1 on this list isn’t something that really happens.

1. “The protagonist needs to be more ‘likeable’…”

“…So many classic protagonists are in fact anti-heroes. Is TAXI DRIVER’s Travis Bickle likeable when he plans to assassinate a politician?” [Actually, yes! He is!] “Or Michael Corleone in THE GODFATHER when he decides to continue his father’s criminal legacy?” [YES!!! He’s highly relatable and charismatic!!]

You and your readers need to understand that when a script reviewer –of any competence– says the protag needs to be more likable, it’s not the same at all as having a moral problem with the character’s actions. It almost always means the character is simply irritating, shallow, or otherwise unsympathetically presented.

Over the years I’ve participated in (and taught) several writing workshops from graduate level down to college first-years, and I have only once ever seen a student critic confused in the way you’re describing — a student who was bewildered in general by the course and its reason for being.

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