Anti-heroes are really common nowadays



      A key aspect of the film that we definitely need to get right is who the characters will be and how they will be shown, represented, and how they will contribute to the story. I've noticed that the Sci-Fi genre has an extremely wide range of characters that you can use and make your own. Heroes (Luke Skywalker), villains (Darth Vader), monsters (Xenomorphs), anti-heroes (Han Solo), comedic characters (Jar Jar Binks, who we are definitely not going to use or base any aspect of our movie off of), experimental scientists (Doc Brown, and that one shady scientist from Jurassic Park), law enforcers (Robocop), captains (Kirk, Piccard), and many other character types that we could use and make our own unique character.

    
See the source image     However, we want our film to have a dark tone, so the character type specifically that we might use are anti-heroes, characters who might not be on a good side or a bad side, and they exist in a grey area of morality. Specific examples are characters like Han Solo from Star Wars, Rick Deckard from Blade Runner, Wolverine from X-Men, and Mad Max, from, well, Mad Max. One source that I researched put it well when they analyzed that it feels like 90% of sci-fi movies (or any movies lately) have anti-heroes in them, and that is because of the non-heroic age we are living in, one where morals are blurred and there are more questions than answers.

     I want to implement this character type of an outsider, renegade, outlaw, into my film, even if it's briefly. This will give my film the tone that I am trying to set, and also give the film more realistic elements, because real people aren't black and white, but very complex, with positive and negative emotions mixed into one. This dark and realistic tone, while sticking true to the Sci-Fi genre, is the ideal model I want the characters to follow.


Source: www.explore-science-fiction-movies.com

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