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42 | Rookie Mistakes & The Power Of Genre (Sheila Hanahan Taylor Pt. 1)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What Is Parasite?

For me genre is an idea that fits into a familiar world or a familiar tone or has a familiar plot. It can be all three of those in one or can be just one of those three. There's deep thematic in the well told genre movies out there parasite to, like what happens when somebody invades your house. So it's how you can take something like parasite and it is again from like the 20,000 foot perspective very familiar mathematically but we added this amazing point of view and this amazing sort of energy and attitude. That felt like I was like brilliantly explained.

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