And even better, the moment where you make them empathize with the villain because of that perspective - even if it's for just a brief moment (except for those truly evil characters like Hans Landa). The moment where you make the reader and the audience see the world through the villain's perspective. And to do that, you may need that thought-provoking villain monologue. That is the key to writing better villains. It ends up being a very black-and-white situation.īut what if you could blur those lines a bit - or at the very least, what if you could make the reader and the audience see the villain's point of view? And in the more disturbing cases (see below with the truly evil Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds), what if you could understand the evil just a bit more when you learn the unreasonable reasoning behind their horrific intentions and actions? They have evil intentions and want to harm the hero at all costs. However, villains often become one-note ponies in that respect. And raising the stakes should be every screenwriter's goal on every single page of the script.

This is most evident in the exchange between Kimble and Gerard.īut let's be honest - villains are more fun to write.

He's just doing his job trying to track down a convicted murderer. Complete with tips, tricks, and advice from your favorite Bachelor alumni, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends is packed with all of the outrageous stories and details Courtney fans and foes alike want to know.Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) from The Fugitive is clearly the antagonist - he is in opposition to Richard Kimble’s (Harrison Ford) escape - but he is not the villain because there are no evil intentions. She dishes on life before, during, and after The Bachelor, including the tabloid frenzy that continued after the cameras stopped rolling. Now, Courtney tells her own story-from her first loves to her first moments in the infamous Malibu mansion. She unapologetically pursued her man, steamrolled her competition, and broke the rules-including partaking in an illicit skinny-dip that sealed her proposal. Courtney quickly became one of the biggest villains in Bachelor franchise history. Although she may have been there for all the right reasons, as the season unfolded and sparks began to fly something else was clear: She was not there to make friends. She fit the casting call: She was young, single, a working model, and a natural in front of the cameras. Courtney Robertson joined season 16 of The Bachelor looking for love. Now Courtney Robertson takes us along on her journey to find love and reveals that happily ever after isn't always what it seems.

She was the villain The Bachelor fans loved to hate.

Confessions of a Villain by Noa