If you were writing this movie would you change anything?...

Me and my mother were watching this movie, and we were having discussions about the Mitch character. I was asking if there was anyway to humanize this character who's pretty much a straight up charming ass hole character through and through. Who's a control freak (I hate those) and who's probably a sex addict (considering who many ladies he had on the side.)

My mother doesn't think there's a way to humanize a homicidal maniac like Mitch but I always wondered if there was a way that you could. I mean what would it take? I always wondered if as a writer, you could have make it so, Mitch hated the mother but not the daughter. And as a writer, you could fix it so the father was less of an ass hole around his daughter to the point where you believe that he genuinely loves his daughter, he just doesn't love his wife as much as he thought he did.


And when his wife leaves him, he genuinely gets pissed off because it's kind of less to do about his wife leaving him and more to do with the fact that his daughter won't be in his life. Because he actually wants his daughter in his life even though, he's kind of/sort of a sh!tty father because he's a sex addict. And then when his daughter actually tries to stop him from hurting her mother, have him atually stop and show him with a conflicted look upon his face and then have him grab his daughter and say, "We're leaving and you can't stop me, Slim!" (By the way, I know you guys probably don't like my rewrite but I'd rather have that than just Billy Campbell being a straight up homicidal ass hole madman.)