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A Protaganist Role Or An Antagonist Role To Play?

 
 
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Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-21 21:54
Which do you prefer? A protaganist role or an antagonist role?
Which is more challenging? Which role gives you more space to express yourself? Good character or bad character?

Luciana Scott
Luciana Scott
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Date: 2007-02-22 03:33
good guys are usually not very motivated, therefore bad characters looks more interesting for me :cool:

Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
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Date: 2007-02-22 18:06
Well, let me ask you if you would want to be rescued by a Kathy Bates character like "Annie Wilkes" from the movie, Misery?
OR, which is more exciting: To be the good guy turn 'bad' to get rid of the 'good' girl gone bad & has-to-die type...Which character usually outlives the other?
...2B'C'
Whether it be :lips::lips: OR :muscle::muscle:. . ."TRUE BLUE" IS The GENE that fits ALL;)

Rebeca Torres
Rebeca Torres
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Date: 2007-02-22 23:04
Bad guy of course. It's soo much more fun. Being weak for so long get's dull and boring but you're always watching the villian to see what he'll do next.

Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
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Date: 2007-02-23 00:32
Jedi or Jet eye?...
Still waiting to see the strength of the Tour de Force...:cool:
:lookdown:
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Act 1, seen 4...Que 2 C more :D
Whether it be :lips::lips: OR :muscle::muscle:. . ."TRUE BLUE" IS The GENE that fits ALL;)

Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-23 00:32
Now now, I ask for views only, now I offer mine. All you guys, keep on posting, I'd like to read on for healthy exchanges.

It goes to say, being bad itself is popular, its almost effortless. Bad characters are pretty unlimited.

Personally I find bad characters challenging, a good character yet even more challenging than a bad one. Not the victim, but the hero or the sacrificial one.

Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
Mystique Eyed Phoenix IonU
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Date: 2007-02-23 00:46
Billy Soh:



...Personally I find bad characters challenging, a good character yet even more challenging than a bad one. Not the victim, but the hero or the sacrificial one.


IM in 'love' with :saint: Billy who has SOUL...Goodnight sweetheart! :lips: 2 :muscle:
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Ever watch The Keep?
Whether it be :lips::lips: OR :muscle::muscle:. . ."TRUE BLUE" IS The GENE that fits ALL;)

Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-24 06:41
Tekhanei you're a wonderful soul around too.

Luciana Scott
Luciana Scott
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Date: 2007-02-25 08:03
here's a conclusion that come to my head :sleep: it's a challenge for an actor/actress to make the good character interesting, don't you think so?...

Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-26 08:33
yeah i have to agree with that, keep it going!

Tim Jones
Tim Jones
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Date: 2007-02-26 18:26
Making a good guy interesting is far harder than making an interesting bad guy. Good guy archetypes are often a dime a dozen.

Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Date: 2007-02-27 20:49
Wahahaha. Bad is an easier way out. Its so easy to be bad, so hard to be good. wahaha

Edvardas M.
Edvardas M.
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Date: 2007-02-28 03:43
Bad guys. However, not in the classic 'I am Victor von Doom and I will destrhoy ze werld for no particular reason!' concept of mad villains, which is plain stupid. Elegant and/or intellectual evil is somehow more appealing to me. Hannibal Lecter (from Silence of the Lambs), Roger 'Verbal' Kint (from Usual Suspects), and Tyler Durden (from Fight Club) are perfect examples of bad guy roles I'd prefer to play.
I knew for sure our chance was blown when rifles made us feel at home.

Billy Soh
Billy Soh
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Posts: 187
Date: 2007-03-01 06:34
Hehe. Again I have to reinforce the point, bad characters and bad habits are extremely easy to pick up. There's no limit to being bad, but the limit to being good's that you can't be bad. :D

Luciana Scott
Luciana Scott
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Date: 2007-03-01 07:13
Billy Soh:

the limit to being good's that you can't be bad. :D

not really :P good guys usually kill tons of bad guys in the name of their country, to save family, etc. good guys do a lot bad things, but there always is some explanation:dunno:

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Date: 2007-03-01 17:56
Good guys always finish last - sometime you must play the bad guy to get what you want - Winners mak:cool:e the rules - Losers live by them

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Date: 2007-04-14 15:10
In the end I want he bad guy caught !

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Date: 2007-04-15 11:28
I would play both; bad because I love interpreting such characters, and good because it would be such a challenge to get it right!

I think this is because it's almost easy to imagine the perfect villain, but not so with the perfect good guy. The good guys tend to come across as overly soppy and pathetic, as Lady Macbeth says, 'too full of the milk of human kindness'.

Now take Macduff... There's a good guy I'd like to play. Or Corporal/Captain Carrot from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series - if anyone can play him properly I'd have to eat all my hats, and I have a fair few ;)

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Date: 2007-04-15 14:21
The best characters are good and and bad guys at the same time. Hamlet is the protagonist, but he spends the play plotting to kill his family members - not generally considered a really moral thing to do :). Or in movies like "L.A. Confidential," the cops are as rotten as the criminals.
It's more like real life, real people, and that's what makes the characters interesting. No one is all good or bad. Even Hannibal Lecter helped Clarice catch the killer (maybe not for the purest of motives, but still ...).
A good actor shows that there are things going on inside them, whether the characters are heroes or scum. Or just walk-ons, for that matter.

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Date: 2007-04-15 17:09
Depends on the character. Apparently many actresses have tried to give Goneril from King Lear [evil bitch sister/daughter no.1] a more human side, and when they do the play sucks! I'm guessing it's because of the way Shakespeare wrote the play. Probably if all the villains were played with a more human side to them, and all the heroes were played with a little less goody-two-shoes attitude it might work, but I don't think the script gives much leeway for that sort of thing.

Normally I'd be inclined to agree with you Fleurs, but I remembered this particular case and thought you might find it intriguing.

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