Why Villains Lose — Joston Ramon Theney
Joston Ramon Theney, Screenwriter, Author, Director, Producer: That’s where the drama comes from, that’s where it gets interesting and if your bad guy was only driven by revenge, I’ve seen that a million times.
Film Courage: We had this comment come in on our channel “In a horror movie only the villain character matters, all the other characters are expendable. Most are going to die anyway.” What’s your reaction to that?
Joston: I don’t think that’s true. If no one matters, they shouldn’t be in the film. If it’s only about that villain then he should be yo-yoing or doing something else that only requires him. I think that you’re trying to tell a story and every character is integral to that story or they shouldn’t be there. Maybe that comes from me working with limited budgets always and you’re constantly saying Why is this person here? Does this person need to be here because they’re going to impact me? As far as scheduling, as far as the budget and it helps you hone your screenwriting skills better too because there’s nothing extraneous about the script so to say at any stage that none of these people matter I think if you’re watching the later Friday the 13th movies, if you’re watching the later Freddy movies or the later Halloweens but if you’re watching the ones that they started with you would not say anybody was extraneous in those stories…
