Balancing emotional depth with genre elements in storytelling helps to connect with the audience. It is important to meet the audience where they are, starting tonally at their level without demanding them to come to you. Genre can help balance intense emotions in storytelling, allowing the audience to connect and engage with the narrative on a deeper level.
Before M. Night Shyamalan became a household name for his mind bending thrillers like “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs”, he was just a young screenwriter in love. And during those blissful early years of marriage he wrote a love story. The screenplay for “Labor of Love” sold right away, and over the next 30 years or so there would be numerous attempts to make it into a movie. There was a major studio, there were A-list directors, Shyamalan even found his perfect star. In this episode, M. Night Shyamalan tells Malcolm about the script that haunts him.
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