How To Surprise The Audience by John Truby

[@hellcanwait8605]

We'll be surprised one these days when we can see the lady of the beautiful voice that makes the interviews in Film Courage 🎬✌🏾️🎭

[@VampireMob]

What I love about watching these interviews is hearing the different ideas from all these different folks. Some I agree with, some I don't, but all of it is really valuable and a great way to get the juices flowing. Congrats on your fast approach to over 700 of them!

[@RevRyukin7]

This guys book, The Anatomy of Story, is great.

[@filmcourage]

Thanks Joe. Lots of practical techniques offered by John throughout our interview series with him.

[@korpienmahtijullit7508]

The creaking of his leather sofa is as enjoyable as mr. Truby´s advice, if not more so!

[@oilyp]

Good example of double reversal: Roy Batty in Blade Runner

[@filmcourage]

Joe, we make it a point to feature diversity. Always nice to hear that others pick up on that. Grateful that you continue to take time to watch these videos of ours. If there are ever any areas of interest you would like us to cover, please do not hesitate. Are there certain topics you look forward to more than others? Our goal was to try to hit 700 by the end of this month. Not sure if we can do it. Cheer us on. : )

[@longjourneyfilm1995]

"Oh yes, that was really great ;) thank you" HHAHAHAH

[@zinekaizerzen-pokemonunite1390]

We can find great examples of double reversal in Anime , especially the ones produced by studio ghibli . Also hunterxhunter is a great example of double reversal in modern anime :)

[@ms.pirate]

Like the witch in howl's moving castle, and ponyo's father in ponyo?

[@alexispapageorgiou72]

Only way to really surprise the audience is with a truly, truthfully complex character. Like Psycho for example ... Snape another example but I prefer Norman Bates. Snape is masterfully constructed, but Bates feels alive. That character could've sustained a True detective series all on his own, while Snape needs a whole series to fully emerge.

[@markforster6457]

2:15 - I don't understand how Snape's way of switching sides didn't get old for other readers. At some point, sooner rather than later, his switches became predictable.

[@KhasAdun1990]

I remember the whole thing about Snape in books 5-7 being a toss-up as to whether he was a good guy or a bad guy. There was an ambiguity to him until the last book.

[@growithjoy]

There was an ambiguity until the very end. You are on guard for him to help or make things worse. You couldn’t predict him.

[@TushArtYoutube]

wow.. truly a master!

[@lisazoria2709]

Great stuff... thank you!

[@BestYouTubeVids123]

Listen to John, take his workshops and learn if you want to become a great movie screenwriter! --Rick Lee

[@TheChuy411]

The first character I thought of that relates to this would have to be Felix from Red vs Blue

[@TuanRyuJin]

Genius!

[@TushArtYoutube]

grt work @Filmcourage

[@dinsfire8489]

great stuff

[@THOMAS2910able]

Treasure Planet has the double reversal.

[@Commonchaffinch2]

THANKYOU SO MUCH

[@filmcourage]

+Nicholas Keszei How was this helpful?

[@Commonchaffinch2]

+Film Courage it was helpful by acknowledging genres & advanced writing techniques. Perhaps more videos for mystery genre ? Great channel overall for myself, a writer.

[@VampireMob]

I'll shoot you an email, got a couple ideas. One thing I'm trying to learn more about is DIY lighting. I've love to hear from folks who make stories without giant light kits and how they approach it.

[@VampireMob]

Cool.

[@محمدعبدالوهابعبدالحليم]

Great

[@robertadme]

Joker learns people can be good, Batman that he has to sacrifice himself #DobleReversal

[@cinematwins378]

I am Twelve and a self published author. In my story the antagonist for the whole book, doesn't turn out to be the worst villan, but an ally. I am working on my sequel and he is an ally. I didn't even watch this before I did that. Pat on my back, :)

[@CyborgT79]

severus snape

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

Sorry to intrude, but I hope that the invitation of topic-suggestions is open to everyone! I, and I'm sure many others, would love to hear about how John developed his material. From Buddhist principles about the individual to entire cultural systems, he hits the nail on the head every time, regardless of subject! How does he know so much about life's lessons and what doesn't he know??

[@ravidoc26]

everything inherently has a start middle and an end-can't understand why we fret over the obvious.plot is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd ,,,,,,,,,and nth most important thing of a story Imagine,experiment to the best u can IN UR MIND-even before u put pen on paper-many times swords kill your imagination-words may titillate u for a while-but a thought leaves stronger impression

[@chriswest8389]

Red herring adversary's. Red herring allies I call em with one or two levels of deflection or camouflage.

[@phildiamond8549]

Darcy and Elizabeth - a double reversal ?

[@av3r3st24]

Cliches doe >~> Sometimes the audience just know because of cliches.

[@aboycalledfish]

"It's a very advanced technique" Well damn this first book I'm writing has not one but two double reversals xD

[@kenobininja2920]

kaguya and her will black zetsu in naruto.

[@EmilyPetersen2986]

like in Frozen... haha :)

[@Sly-Moose]

Me laughing my ass off 'cause I'm actually writing a double reversal love story. XD

[@brandenholmes322]

Double reversal is not an advanced technique, it's pretty simple. Just because it isn't used often in most genres doesn't mean that it's harder to do, or takes more skill. The protagonist/s is/are the main shaper of the theme and whether a double reversal is a suitable plot twist. John Truby is way overrated as a "screenwriting guru".

[@georgekurioreilly4857]

Because your a succeful screenwriter.

[@ryanbarker5217]

maybe he is. seems like you're projecting your own screenwriting shortcomings on him.

[@7kuro7hyo7]

This is almost every anime ever