“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin
Look at that. A setting, a conflict and a goal. Why does Charlie Chaplin make things look so simple?
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“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin
Look at that. A setting, a conflict and a goal. Why does Charlie Chaplin make things look so simple?
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Funny. I would have tagged the policeman as the character and the pretty girl as the conflict…
Ah, but you are forgetting Chaplin is there. He’s the everyman, who is the main character.
Ah. Right. In that case, I see how the policeman would be a conflict…
Maybe because he had no words to wrangle in or out of the way? ; )
It’s still a story. The words are just the medium it’s told in.