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Spontaneous (2020)
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DZ-107: Establishing Tone through Character
How can we use dramatisation to create tone?
AI✦Examines how Spontaneous establishes tone through the relationship between its extreme given circumstances and character reactions, using the tension between the mundane and the catastrophic to create its distinctive voice.✦
Listen if you want to understand how character actions and reactions shape a film's tone
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In this episode, Chas and Stu continue their deep dive into how to write tone by examining films with “light” (we use the phrase loosely) tones: LADY BIRD, EMILY THE CRIMINAL, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, and SPONTANEOUS. We also talk a surprising amount about DUNE and CRAZY STUPID LOVE… →
Films:
Lady Bird (2017)
, Emily the Criminal (2022)
, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
, Spontaneous (2020)