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If you are writing a screenplay, you'll have all the visual and auditory resources of film at your disposal: Ominous music, a dark palette, etcetera, which is what Star Wars uses. However, please ...
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System
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2019-12-08T07:32:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T07:32:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
If you are writing a screenplay, you'll have all the visual and auditory resources of film at your disposal: Ominous music, a dark palette, _etcetera_, which is what _Star Wars_ uses. However, please be aware that many of the old tropes used for "evil" are ethnocentric at best, and racist or otherwise discriminatory at worst. They can also come across as horribly cliched. If you are writing a book or a story (despite what you may have heard), it is perfectly fine to ["tell" not show](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/25706/why-are-writers-so-hung-up-on-show-versus-tell): > John James was a completely evil man. Pretty unambiguous, right? As the author, your word is law (unless, of course, you're speaking through a first-person narrator).
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System
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2017-12-20T18:41:57Z (almost 7 years ago)
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