"When a character dies in a story, unless the character has had his personal story expressed some way in the drawing of his face, body and attire, the reader will not care; your reader won’t have any emotional connection.
Your publisher might say, “Your story has no value; there’s only one dead guy — I need twenty or thirty dead guys for this to work.” But that is not true; if the reader feels the dead guy or wounded guys or hurt guys or whomever you have in trouble have a real personality resulting from your own deep studies of human nature — with an artist’s capacity for such observation — emotions will surge."
-Jean Giraud, aka Moebius
-Jean Giraud, aka Moebius
*looks over at all the movies, games, books, etc. where the
body counts are extremely high but as a viewer I couldn't care less about each
death* >_>
"KILL MORE RANDOM PEOPLE!" does not actually make me connect with them anymore. In fact it's the opposite most of the time. Once your body count hits a certain number, I just am disgusted with how little a human life seems to matter and start losing any interest in the main protagonist who is clearly never going to get hurt as hundreds die around them.
"KILL MORE RANDOM PEOPLE!" does not actually make me connect with them anymore. In fact it's the opposite most of the time. Once your body count hits a certain number, I just am disgusted with how little a human life seems to matter and start losing any interest in the main protagonist who is clearly never going to get hurt as hundreds die around them.
