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Ep 120 - The Comic Hero's Journey with Steve Kaplan

The Successful Screenwriter with Geoffrey D Calhoun: Screenwriting Podcast

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The Role of Characters in Comedies

Just because it's a comedy doesn't mean that they're reactive. They still have to be the driving force of the story. With the exception of aparody comediesor or sketch comedies like airplane. Even in airplane, they tell a narrative story that you kind of care about those ar is even right, silly way they talk about archetypes. And one of the things a that that my arc type is based on is a theatre form from the renaissance called the committe dear.

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