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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is There a Dragon Who Will Be the Hero?

There is an old tradition in storytelling, where you're setting who will help us with this thing. Who will be the hero? And suddenly you meet him and he might be a doofus. He might be an ordinary man, but we know. It's so juicy. I'll tell you, I remember being a kid and watching Star Wars and going, who are these robots? Who is Darth Vader? What is Princess Leia?"

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