I always like creating a character with flaws. I intended to write something ridiculous, humorous, comedic, a bathos with this shadow character. In a way it is like ‘The Katering Show’ we viewed but with less delightful tone and totally different themes. He is an antagonist without a protagonist in the story. A villain is […]

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Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   ‘TRUE CHARACTER is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to his character’s essential nature.” —— Robert McKee, Story, 1999, pg. 101   What McKee suggests is, each character has a […]

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   Ron Woodroof is the hero of the story, there is no debate about that. He was a electrician and a rodeo before HIV discovered on him. Woodroof is first socially separated from his usually group, not because of his ‘ego’ (Vogler, pg.29), but he is forced out […]

Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).   How to describe Ron Woodroof, the leading character of the film? Who is he? He is a man from Texas. What is he? He is a cowboy, an electrician, an alcoholic, a drug addict, and a womanizer. What is he like? He is disrespectful, arrogant, homophobic, somewhat […]