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Comedies are often dismissed as less than serious stories, but if you look beyond the laughs, comedies typically contain...

Stories are never direct. In a romantic comedy, boy meets girl, but it never ends that way. Instead the...

Even the Academy Awards dismiss comedies as frivolous entertainment, yet the best comedies often have an important point to...

What makes any story interesting is conflict. Put a bunch of characters in a room and have them agree...

If you’ve ever gotten hooked on a soap opera, you know how they can hold your attention for weeks,...

The pace of some movies just seems to drag to a crawl while the pace of a great three...

Every story has a mystery that drops hints along the way until we finally understand what’s going on. If...

In every movie, there are mini-stories that follow the four-part structure of stories like this: An attention-grabber highlights some...