The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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

Jul 13, 2023

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Hyper Contextualization: How to Put Medicine in the Candy

01:37

The Archetypical Psychological Resistance in Writing Characters

01:01

Introduction

3min

How to Dance to Reset Your Brain

3min

Archetypes: A Universal Conceptual Real Estate

2min

How to Negotiate Away Your Integrity for Survival

3min

The Importance of Archetypes

5min

The Shadow Self in a TV Show

2min

The Role of Patterns in Storytelling

2min

How to Keep Your Mind and Body Healthy

4min

Hyper Contextualization: How to Put Medicine in the Candy

3min

10.

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

2min

11.

The Evolution of Consciousness

2min

12.

The Matriarchal Arc

2min

13.

The Fourth Turning: How the Culture Has Appropriated Something but Made Mistakes About It

4min

14.

The Power of the Witch

2min

15.

How to Use Archetypes to Survive

3min

16.

The Power of Archetype Cards

2min

17.

How to Be a Good Writer

3min

18.

The Art of Accomplishment Is the Podcast

4min

19.

Game of Thrones: A Complicated Journey

2min

20.

The Industrial Complex and the Power of Cinema

5min

21.

The Destroyer: The Final Archetype of Existence

2min

22.

How to Be a Benevolent Disruptor

2min

23.

The Joy of Possibility

3min

With hits like BRING IT ON and STICK IT, writer/director Jessica Bendinger is known for her subversive and surprising takes on female girlhood, using archetypes in a way that audiences have celebrated. Today what discuss what archetypes are, how we can use them, and what the future of our industry looks like.

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