The ultimate fight?

I was contacted by an aspiring screenwriter from Sweden who wanted me to read and give feedback to the first half of his short script.

Have you seen old Disney shorts where a little angel and a devil pops out and have an argument? The story was based on this concept, but in serious terms.

The concept was interesting but I realized I would never have tried it myself. Not because it is a bad idea, but because I’m likely too much of a coward.

You see, an angel and a devil are two very stereotypic characters; as stereotype as they can be, really. And I would have presumed that there was not much to find.

Also there is the situation that the angel is Good and does the Right Thing, so whatever the angel says is right, is right. So, if the angel says "call the cops", we want the main character to call the cops, since it is the Right Thing to do.

I don’t know how this story ends since only the first half was written, but I do hope that he surprises me and I will find that I was wrong in my assumptions that there is nothing to explore.

Never the less, it was refreshing to read his script, just because he wasn’t wearing his condemning glasses, but actually started on an idea so easily considered doomed to fail.