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I was wondering where you'd vanished to :)

Is this script part of a series? And if so, are there series notes that potential rewriters should know?

It worked for Frodo and Sauron...

If I remember the movie correctly (and it has been over 20 years since I saw it), Lecter's role is that of a mentor - maybe an anti-mentor given his predelictions?

It goes back to what I mentioned in my first reply - that kind of charisma that many truly evil people have, that has people following them without really knowing why. Surely Lecter wasn't the villain of that movie though? It's been a long time since I saw it.

It's quite boring having a straight up vile antagonist though, isn't it? That's why (IMO) late-era Breaking Bad fell off a cliff somewhat in terms of villains when they introduced the rather obvious Nazis. Wow, what's that you say? They're Nazis and they're bad?

Breaking Bad was particularly memorable, as it seems most people came to see WW as a villain, but I never had that experience.

Just take the Peter Jackson approach and stick Liv Tyler in to float around and stink the place out...

Obviously villains are nasty people - the 'likeability' of villains (for me anyway) amounts to "the devil gets all the best lines"... Plus many movie villains are written as psychopaths, for whom easy charm and likeability masking genuine evil comes easily. Odd that you should choose the...

The last three shows you've listed are not really mockumentaries beyond the visual style. They all abandoned the conceit quite quickly beyond a few format points. Actually I would argue they overuse those specific format points (glances to camera, talking heads etc) as an efficient way to...

I think the age of mockumentaries has passed, but good new ones still appear from time to time. In general, all mockumentaries ignore the absence of camera crews to the extent that it's practically a genre convention. When the US Office tried to introduce a storyline where a character...

What is the purpose of the training? Is it behind the backs of the bosses, or with their blessing? What is the relationship between the two women? I think without knowing more about the characters and the story you're doomed to be presented with montage cliche after montage cliche as the...

As a Brit, Micke is far more interesting and (more importantly) distinctive IMO. Not entirely sure how to pronounce it (Mike, Mike-uh, Mick-uh or even Mickey?) so you'd have that to look forward to :)

You don't appreciate how much we love our Royals ;) I agree though that as long as the details are plausible to the average viewer, that's OK, and the basis in true events is reassuring (a lot of scripts of this kind seem to be based solely on what the writer has seen in other movies, which are...

I'll try to have a go at that, as I have a bit of time on my hands and need a challenge to get me writing again. Is there a deadline? One obvious problem from reading a few pages is that there are a lot of procedural and factual claims that need to be correct - how much research have you put...