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64 | Balancing Characters, Humor, and Action w/ Nicole Perlman

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Guardians - Who's Your Boss?

The first big thing I did was figure out what my protagonist was and then once I had that, I was able to sort of go through the comics and say which characters are going to play off of him best for this team. So a big part of it was choosing which characters and why and how they played off each other. He feels like a lead with ensemble around him. That's more more Dorphy, shall we say, who's your boss? Can you tell me a little bit, how do I do this? But no, okay, but the real question is in creating the structure of an ensemble film with a lead.

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