{"id":14788,"date":"2021-07-20T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2025-02-27T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:18:33","slug":"the-danger-of-complex-action-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/the-danger-of-complex-action-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Complex Action Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Q&amp;A: The Danger of Complex Action Villains\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kMm5uM-VxU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this clip from the follow-up Q&#038;A session to McKee&#8217;s &#8220;The Foundation of Action&#8221; webinar in 2021, Robert explains how sympathy for a villain risks audience excitement, and why writers must be careful when introducing detailed backstories for their antagonists. <\/p>\n<p>Join us from April 8-10, 2025, for another live 3-part webinar series on the Action Genre: <a href=\"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/webinars\/action\">https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/webinars\/action<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McKee explains how sympathy for a villain risks audience excitement, and why writers must be careful when introducing detailed backstories for their antagonists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21824,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}