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What is a Stock Character?

When you sit down to develop a character, there's a whole bunch of types you can go through, such as hand archetypes, as a jumping-off point. One of the ways I like to look at who I'm putting in my ...
There’s no single way for a woman to be a badass—she can kick ass like the Bride (Uma Thurman) in “Kill Bill,” solve a crime like Clarice (Jodie Foster) in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or lead a ...
You know about the Bechdel test, right? It's the famous and very simple test that is used today to assess the gender bias of films, TV series and books. It's actually very simple - to pass this test, ...