Episode 145: The Anatomy of Genres โ A Conversation with John Truby
Beyond the Screenplay
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Do You Have a Favorite Genre?
I was delighted to see that second half of each chapter because I think that's kind of even what you were just saying, there was a great example of that taking a fuzzy idea that I had in my head and then sharpening it. So yeah, so I really appreciated that. And for me, the probably of all of them, my favorite is the anti-Western, although they aren't really written much anymore, but it's interesting. In a three-year period from 1968 to 71, we had four great anti-Westerns, butch Cassidy, wild bunch, once upon a time in the West, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Those four films changed my life.
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