ironpony wrote:
I wrote a crime thriller screenplay, and some readers don't believe that a main character, a cop, would go above and beyond his duty and the law to achieve his goals. They say cops don't do that because they would be fired and have to deal with the consequences. So they said that I should not have him step beyond his duty and at all, and totally remain within the law.
But then he is just following his superiors orders, and has much more limited personal motivations of his own. Unless that's good, because it makes him as a character more plausible, since realistically, police follow orders, and do not want to anything stupid to jeopardize their careers?
Where do these readers even come from, are they just internet critics? I mean when it comes down to it if you have a story you want to write, just do it...see if you can find a publisher or publish it yourself. I mean even in movies there are cop characters who do that sort of thing all the time so I don't see how that would be too crazy for a book. Or if you are really unsure you could make it a bit of a fictional universe where things work a bit differently than regular real life(doesn't have to be a super crazy world or anything could be just like a slight variation of the real world).
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27 May 2020, 12:42 am
