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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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She's the Agent of Change, Right?

She's the agent of change, but there's an irony to that. Every character is in worse shape when they hit act two. So she's going to metaphorically beat the shit out of him. And so yeah, it's going to get worse and worse for him. But the reason you're doing that to him is to raise his consciousness about something. He's a transformative character. That's another way again of stating sort of what the ending is. Is it an upending or a downending? Right? If he changes in that, and then at the end of the day we feel like that was a good thing for him, even if he goes back to prison or something

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