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146 | Screenwriting/Storytelling Archetypes: Using and Subverting Them (ft. Jessica Bendinger)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Matriarchal Arc

I think I have to write one of these characters now because I feel such a resistance to it in terms of myself. So there's some sort of archetypical psychological thing coming from super dangerous, super dangerous to say she's right and everybody else is wrong. But like sadness is to me a claiming character. She just doesn't believe it herself because she's believing what everybody else is telling her specifically joy. The matriarchal arc is a full circle arc. It's not it's not a straight line. And they get the satisfaction and the self esteem of going like, Oh, wow, I was right. That's different.

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