Kim Anisi "It makes a protagonist of he who is literature's all-time ultimate villain and simultaneously the personification of all villainy.
The writer, director and star of "Bobby G. Can't Swim," John-Luke Montias, has taken on a formidable task in making the protagonist of his debut feature a street hustler whose life is a series of embarrassments.
And even before Return to Castle Wolfenstein, another realistic first-person shooter with a Nazi protagonist was making a stir: Day of Defeat, which was released for online play last January.
Thomas Perry took a big chance making the protagonist of his new thriller, DEAD AIM (Random House, $24.95), such a ding-dong bore.
And he said that the idea of making Michael, the protagonist of "An Equal Music," a violinist came to him when he saw a man walking across Hyde Park in London and tried to imagine what kind of life he led.
If you are creating a main character who is going to be your protagonist, make a list of strengths and weaknesses for the character.
Right now he's no super soldier, not yet a part of the Spartan program that made the protagonist of Halos one through four the baddies-slaying ultimate badass that he was.
Alice Nutter, a prosperous widow, was perhaps the most respectable and least flamboyant of the defendants, and in making her the protagonist of "The Daylight Gate," Winterson forthrightly acknowledges that "my Alice Nutter is not the Alice Nutter of history".
Rosenzweig does make an appealing protagonist: a straight arrow of the old school with more than 30 years' service, dogged, meticulous, wry, philosophical, literate (he became a bookseller after his retirement).
It is not so much the wild displays of self-laceration, the lashing out at colleagues, the groping of secretarial bottoms, the woozy, boozy, staggering around and throwing up that makes the protagonist of Inadmissible Evidence so resistible.
