Let us put an end once and for all to the current madness about inner character arcs, which finds its origins in the Grand Poobah of screenwriting gurus, Mr. Robert McKee, who penned in his (now infamous, err, famous) book, STORY: “The finest writing not only reveals true character, but arcs or changes to that inner nature, for better or worse, over the course of the telling.” The fact is great films have been made with great characters that do not change who they are at their core. It isn’t that the writing is a lower quality because the protagonists don’t change, it's that this principle about arcs has been wrong since the very beginning. But to say that every protagonist in every story must have a character arc is madness, my friends. It's a two-faced lie from the pits of hell.
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