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37. Dr. Bill Indick, Author of Psychology for Screenwriters

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What Is the Scariest Thing Again?

In the fantasy genre chapter where you talk about frogs and toads, there's those from metamorphosis. The idea that so if you take a fair fairy tale like the frog king, which Disney made, I think they called it the frog Prince. In that fairy tale where the princess has to kiss the frog and the frog turns into a prince. And how does the child deal with that? Well, again, she deals with that through escape into a fantasy world. So meetamorphosis is sort of key symbol in all the parts of the story itself. They would think that that little boxes magic. No, absolutely. You're a, there's no other way to understand this.

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