DZ-48: One-Shot - Blade Runner 2049 – Agency vs Choice
Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast - A podcast by Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis
Can your characters be given choices and yet still be deprived of agency? Chas and Stu take a deep dive into one of their favourite movies of 2017: Blade Runner 2049. They are joined by accomplished screenwriter, C.S. McMullen. For a film that is thematically about choice, Stu and Chas thought it would be an excellent opportunity to explore how characters can be dramatised through binary choices. And yet, CS opened their eyes to the idea that characters can be given choices without having agency.
