147 | Elemental Co-Writer Brenda Hsueh On Balancing Comedy and Drama In Our Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The New Half-Hour Funny Drama Space
Pixar is marrying this kind of like grounded character drive with the fun and stakes of an action movie. And so it was like super fun coming up with, you know, fun action sequences, basically. But then there's the balance, right? Like now it's gone too far over into the action and we've lost the emotional indie movie that we love. It's so back and forth, right? As you just toggle in trying to find that incredible balance. Speaking of balance, you worked on the show, Mr. Korman, which is an Apple TV plus show I really liked. In my mind, we could categorize that show as a dramedy. Oh, yeah
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