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146 | Screenwriting/Storytelling Archetypes: Using and Subverting Them (ft. Jessica Bendinger)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Hook for the Audience if the Character Is Ahead of the Guests

I want to go back to patriarchal stories versus matriarchal stories. I'm interested in what is the hook for the audience if the character is ahead of the audience? How does how does that work? Meaning the character isn't broken. I mean, meaning they just maybe need to heal, but they're kind of, I mean, that's a great isolation of it. Trying to think like the characters ahead of the audiences.

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