Screenwriting : Conflict by Nicholas Benson

I'll take a shot in the dark, cause that is not something I am good at. But, I think what you may want to try is creating conflict within your character. Give him a back story that's going to make it tough for him to complete his goal in the screenplay. Right now I'm working on a ghost story and gave may MC a fear of the dark which stems from a childhood incident. This creates conflict within himself every time he has to face the darkness. Hope that helps.

It follows the day to day lives of Banquet severs.

I'd go back and look at your main character's goal and amp up the personal stakes. It doesn't have to be literal life and death stakes, but to the character the emotional feeling should be "if I don't get this, I will die." The more trivial the goal and extreme the stakes, the better for comedy. For example "if I'm not recognized by my boss as being the best brisket server at the Weisman bar mitzvah, I will die." Also, if the core essence of the stakes are primal (survival, finding a mate, making friends) then they will resonate as universal. Then find other characters who can have the same goals at odds with your character with the same level of passion and let the fun commence.

Life is conflict. An asshole co-worker, financial problems, past emotional demons, anything that makes a character really want to smash something. Think Office Space.

Thanks everyone! Super helpful!

Very Bad Things is a good one to watch too, very funny and very, very dark and funnily enough it has Christian Slater in it too

Email me craig.griffiths@askfindbuy.com and I'll send you a copy of my book. It has some good conflict development tools.

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Create internal conflict dialogue. IDK just a guess what might work.

Any time the protagonist can't achieve a goal is a point of tension. Maybe it's internal conflict over an ethical decision, maybe there's a disagreement between two characters. You have to have stakes, whether it's life and death, or just that the character will be devastated if he doesn't reach his/her goal. Maybe the main character wants something that other people think is wrong of him/her to want, or maybe just the way of going about it creates conflict in the people around that character. Give your character a goal - whether it's an emotional or physical goal - and put a barrier in his/her way. Maybe it's as simple as needing alcohol because your character is depressed, but the shop had a ram raid and all the alcohol is smashed, or the character gets there and realises he doesn't have his wallet. There are many ways to create tension and conflict :).