DZ-87: Keeping Genre Fresh

Listen when you're writing within a genre but terrified you'll deliver something your audience has already seen.

In tackling this enormous topic, Stu and Chads enlist professional TV writer and director Kodie Bedford, someone who has somehow managed to defy genre pigeon-holing by writing mystery, comedy and vampire shows.

The three of them look at GET OUT, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN and THE INVISIBLE MAN (with reference to PARASITE, JOHN WICK, TAKEN, KNIVES OUT and more) to see what tools the writers have used to deliver on the expectations of a genre while moving that genre on, without writing something stale.

Thanks to Chris for editing this episode.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.

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CHAPTERS

• 00:00:57 – Intro: Keeping Genre Fresh
• 00:03:10 – What is Genre?
• 00:16:30 – Get Out
• 00:45:10 – Promising Young Woman
• 01:25:08 – The Invisible Man
• 01:59:18 – Wrap Up
• 02:11:44 – Thanks to our Patreons!

FILMS

• GET OUT (2017) — (w) Jordan Peele
• PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020) — (w) Emerald Fennell
• THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020) — (w) Leigh Whannell, H G Wells, Leigh Whannell (d) Leigh Whannell

SCRIPTS

• Study the script: GET OUT (2017) — Jordan Peele
• Study the script: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020) — Emerald Fennell

SHOT ZERO DEEP DIVES

• Perp & Victim 2: Opening Kills in Horror (2000s+)

LINKS

• Website: Kodie Bedford: Breaking down characters and worlds

EPISODES IN THE TWISTING GENRE SERIES

• DZ-87: Keeping Genre Fresh
• DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing

RELATED EPISODES

• DZ-54: Thematic Sequences
• DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT
• DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions

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