Here’s What Villain Films Can Teach You About Writing Tricky Characters

How to build complexity through learning what makes memorable characters tick

Anisa Nasir
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readNov 6, 2019

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The “making of a villain” films always inspire me to challenge myself as a writer. It wasn’t until after I watched Joaquin Phoenix’s rendition of the Joker that I realized just how complicated his character was as…

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