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Sympathetic Doesn’t Have To Mean Likable

Posted by Jennine Lanouette on Thursday, June 12th, 2014

The beauty of the concept of sympathetic character is that once you have your viewer invested in your main character, you can then have him go off and do all kinds of maladapted things without losing your viewer’s engagement in the story.

Sympathetic Doesn’t Have To Mean Likable from Jennine Lanouette on Vimeo.