: I enjoy characters who have interesting lives, or quiet ones. Any well drawn three dimensional character should be someone one can relate to, whether you have anything in common with that character

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I enjoy characters who have interesting lives, or quiet ones. Any well drawn three dimensional character should be someone one can relate to, whether you have anything in common with that character or not.

It is often something as fundamental as their desires, aspirations and their courage to move forward despite whatever obstacles the author has thrown in their way that appeals to one.

The idea that one can only enjoy fiction about characters so like themselves as to be mirrors is extremely limiting.

Whether it is Ahab and his need to hunt his white whale, Jean Valjean’s need for redemption though he is certain he cannot have it, or a farmer in China choosing to bring home a second wife now that he can afford to, the choices and decisions are fascinating.

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain has some characters you are not expected to like, not really expected to see as yourself, but rather as the characters they are, flawed, ill and competing against each other over who has the highest fever. Small things, but true and true certainly to the paradigm.

The inclusion of minorty actors can be brilliant. Kenneth Branagh, in Much Ado About Nothing, has Keanu Reeves as Don John who is brother to the Prince, Don Pedro, played perfectly by Denzel Washington.

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