Trubys Screenwriting - Learn the Detective Genre #1

John Truby discusses the Detective Genre. Learn the four characteristics of the Detective hero as well as the key plot structure.

[@emilyeshraghi8197]

At the very end: "You can always count on them to get the job done." "...unless they give in to love." - brilliant!

[@Ranger7Studios]

A perfect example where the Detective chooses love over honor is Blade Runner. Decker chooses to leave with the replicant at the end. Fantastic video!

[@mattosso7676]

And that was because his internal moral code was not just challenged, but broken when he saw the humanity of replicants through both Rachael and Roy Batty and it changed his world view. Typically in detective fiction, the detective doesn't change. He is simply the conduit for the writer to reveal the darker, more uncomfortable truths of life to the reader.

[@dancronin5691]

Decision to Leave - Another excellent example

[@slonamu]

For someone who has worked on so many movies one would think he knows the importance of sound. Good advice presented in the most irotating manner.

[@charlessmyth]

Harper (Paul Newman, 1966) is unclear about the choice made, but it is alluded to when Harper says "Aw hell".

[@foghornfilms]

Is that what made LA Confidential so great? Russell Crowe gets the love of a woman in the end :)

[@SteveHovland]

A lot of the rumble disappears if you cut off sound below 150 hz.

[@darrylprojectile]

very profound. awesome clip

[@thesimplisticseth]

Absolutely, this guy fucking rules!

[@aboubacaramine8689]

"You can't montage love" ...uhm... Has this guy seen Up?

[@georgekurioreilly4857]

Up doesn't montage a relationship developing but tells us through montage that he was in a relationship.

[@gnewt75]

Actually the loving relationship in UP doesn't start out as a montage. The characters meet and have a scene or two together establishing their relationship THEN it moves to a montage.

[@Mediagix]

What about Chinatown, does he not choose love there?

[@JacobPatrick1]

How many people wrote a detective story where the detective chooses love after this?

[@Mediagix]

@flemishguy I know the movie. I was relating to his choice love over justice, not the outcome.

[@Alice8000]

started from the bottom now we here

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Maybe YOU can’t montage love, that sounds like a practice challenge to me! Write a story in three lines Montage a love story Build a story without a protagonist I’m working on it and breaking all the rules to do it!

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

The movie Up comes in like the Coolaid Man!

[@gepisar]

AH! Basic Instinct!