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  • Nov 21, 2010, 08:29 PM
    cozoDOP2
    In a 2 hour movie, How many main characters and other characters should you have?
    I'm making a movie and I have 7 main characters and about 12 enemies/badguys/antagonists.
    I don't know if this is a good way to do it.. or should I reduce the number of main characters.

    The movie is animation and I'm not a professional movie maker. Just hobbiest
  • Oct 28, 2011, 06:12 AM
    sunblaze
    Only one antagonist, the next ones are usually "deflectors" (the antaonists friend/assistant) but the protagonist may never know the deflectors until the deflector does something bad to the protagonist while he/she is busy trying to defeat the antagonist. Sometimes the real Antagonist may also be a deflector and the antagonist the prtaginist thought dies and only then the real antagonist may reveal themselves near the end in the last showdown/battle between the true antagonist and protagonist.

    The protagonists ally (the ally character/protaginists friend) sometimes gets involved with these deflectors too, unfortunately sometimes even dies.

    There can and must only be two oponents: PROTAGONIST and ANTAGONIST. And only one can win (usually the Protagonist) otherwise your story can potentially become too confusing for readers/viewers. Think of the others as deflectors ;)

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