I had a fucking English teacher mark my definitions of protagonist and antagonist wrong cause of this. Luckily I was 14 and totally not having that and got that inconsequential point back
It's weird because both words come from Greek except here no one calls the bad guy an "antagonist", and protagonist just means the main person. Antagonist means "competitor", but not specifically in terms of a movie or play or whatever, just generally "competitor". Not even "adversary" in general. I'm not sure who (when, why) decided it is specific to cinema and literature and that it means "bad guy" and protagonist means "good guy" but it really annoys me when I see it because it clashes against what I know the words being used for, and also it creates a game of broken phone because some other countries also don't use the words like that. Also "main characters" and "secondary characters" is a much less silly categorization than "good guys" and "bad guys".
That's pretty much the whole story. My definitions were right and his were wrong, I dug up a lot of sources and examples cause they aren't that hard to come by hauled them to his desk and got my two points. It really didn't matter at all but there's no way I could let it slide
He's the viewpoint character, which is enough to make some people assume you're supposed to like and admire him.
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I had a fucking English teacher mark my definitions of protagonist and antagonist wrong cause of this. Luckily I was 14 and totally not having that and got that inconsequential point back
It's weird because both words come from Greek except here no one calls the bad guy an "antagonist", and protagonist just means the main person. Antagonist means "competitor", but not specifically in terms of a movie or play or whatever, just generally "competitor". Not even "adversary" in general. I'm not sure who (when, why) decided it is specific to cinema and literature and that it means "bad guy" and protagonist means "good guy" but it really annoys me when I see it because it clashes against what I know the words being used for, and also it creates a game of broken phone because some other countries also don't use the words like that. Also "main characters" and "secondary characters" is a much less silly categorization than "good guys" and "bad guys".
Sounds like there's a good story here.
That's pretty much the whole story. My definitions were right and his were wrong, I dug up a lot of sources and examples cause they aren't that hard to come by hauled them to his desk and got my two points. It really didn't matter at all but there's no way I could let it slide
You can be the hero but I'm going to tell this story from his perspective when I make the movie.
Can I play myself? I'm 30 now so just the right age to play a 14 year old in a movie