How To Write Flawed Heroes, From The Writer Who Perfected The Art Form | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce: Lots of screenwriters strive to make audiences fall in love with a character or view them as evil incarnate; fewer can go on to make those viewers feel conflicted about their choice. Long before Breaking Bad gave viewers constant gut-checks about whether they still wanted Walter White to succeed, The Sopranos provided similar uncertainty. Tony Soprano was not the first troubled hero to murder his way into our hearts, but as critic Alan Sepinwall points out, he just may be the modern prototype. As it turns out, the guy who wrote more episodes of The Sopranos than anyone else went on to bring even more wildly flawed lead characters to blistering life afterward.
