Re: Revenge Stories--what makes 'em work?
Another approach is to take on a system/nemesis that is already universally hated - and then add the personal touch. Like big corporations, or some extreme political group. Something that the everyday person already feels a bit uncomfortable or nervous about.
I'm thinking of a small local film called...
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The Bank. (Including this film in this context is a spoiler, in effect.)
MORE SPOILERS
Banks are roundly and soundly hated by most Australians but for the first two acts of this film, we believe the hero is making his way (the self-made man) then getting caught up in the heady world of money, until we realise that this was all part of the plot to undo the bank that did over his parents when he was young, and brought about his father's(?) suicide.
Another approach is to take on a system/nemesis that is already universally hated - and then add the personal touch. Like big corporations, or some extreme political group. Something that the everyday person already feels a bit uncomfortable or nervous about.
I'm thinking of a small local film called...
SPOILERS
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*
The Bank. (Including this film in this context is a spoiler, in effect.)
MORE SPOILERS
Banks are roundly and soundly hated by most Australians but for the first two acts of this film, we believe the hero is making his way (the self-made man) then getting caught up in the heady world of money, until we realise that this was all part of the plot to undo the bank that did over his parents when he was young, and brought about his father's(?) suicide.
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