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The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby | @BeyondTheScreenplay
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What’s new on my other channels
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Why Mass Effect Should Be the Next Game of Thrones
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How Good Filmmaking Brings a Script to Life
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The Soul of Good Character Design
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How A Christmas Carol Perfectly Demonstrates Five-Act Structure
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A Few Good Men — Writing a Final Battle
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I started a second channel! Check out @StoryModeOn
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How Coraline Borrows from Ancient Forms of Storytelling
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How Stranger Things Conveys Tone and Style
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Christopher Nolan vs. Interstellar — The Nolan Crosscut
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The Rules (Guidelines) of Adventure — The Pirates of the Caribbean
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One X-Cellent Scene — Attack on Division X
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Mad Men — Layers of Meaning
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Jaws — Assembling a Top-Tier Team (feat. @TierZoo)
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Iron Man vs. Captain America — The 11-Year Character Arc
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Parasite vs. Sunset Boulevard — The Disillusionment Arc
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Parasite — The Power of Symbols
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Casino Royale — How Action Reveals Character
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The Last of Us (feat. Writer & Creative Director Neil Druckmann) | @StoryModeOn
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Aliens vs. Terminator 2 — How to Sequel like James Cameron
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The Matrix — Exposition in Action
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The Hidden Structure of Before Sunset
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Minority Report — When the Story World Becomes The Villain
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One Marvelous Scene — Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Adaptation.
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The Silence of the Lambs — Dissecting a Scene
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Searching — Reformatting a Thriller
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Groundhog Day — An Inescapable Premise
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Annihilation — The Art of Self-Destruction
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Good Will Hunting — The Psychology of Character
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The Devil Wears Prada — The First 10 Pages
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Shaun of the Dead — Why Comedy Needs Character
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A Quiet Place — How to Write Sound into a Screenplay
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No Country for Old Men — Don't Underestimate the Audience
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Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist
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Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain
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Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character
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The Last Jedi — Forcing Change
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Collateral — The Midpoint Collision
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Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone
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Get Out — A New Perspective in Horror
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Breaking Convention
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The Avengers — Defining an Act
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Hidden Figures — The Power of Subplots
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Logan vs. Children of Men — The End is in the Beginning
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Blade Runner — Constructing a Future Noir
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Memento — Telling a Story In Reverse
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Game of Thrones — How to Evoke Emotion
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Telling a Story from the Inside Out
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True Detective vs. Se7en — Creating Light Amongst The Dark
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Arrival — Examining an Adaptation
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Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens — The Fault in Our Star Wars
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Breaking Bad — Crafting a TV Pilot
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Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense
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When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions
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The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration
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Ex Machina — The Control of Information
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Whiplash vs. Black Swan — The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist
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The Shining — Quietly Going Insane Together
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About
I believe that a more informed audience raises the bar for storytelling. That examining the techniques used to tell great stories makes your own writing better and your appreciation for the stories deeper.
With Lessons from the Screenplay, I make videos that analyze movie scripts to examine exactly how and why they are so good at telling their stories. Part educational series and part love letter to awesome films, Lessons from the Screenplay aims to be a fun way to learn more about your favorite films and help us all become better storytellers.
I’ll be releasing new videos every couple weeks, and taking suggestions about what scripts I should look at in future episodes.
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