The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby | @BeyondTheScreenplay

hey guys long time no see I'm sharing this video on the lesson from the screenplay Channel because I think it's a great new resource for all you writers out there John truby whose book the anatomy of story I've talked about many times on this channel has a new book out called the anatomy of genres and it's

great we recently had John truby on our podcast to discuss the book chat about some movies and break down why people don't talk enough about genre if they talk about it at all we had a really fascinating conversation and I think you're going to find it very useful now I know many of you have been asking

when a new video essay is going to be released and my honest answer is I don't know as I mentioned on Twitter earlier this year I'm currently working with BioWare on the next installment of Mass Effect it's a dream come true gig and all of my time and energy is currently focused on that as well as a few other side

projects for now I hope you really enjoy this special episode of beyond the screenplay a conversation with John trupy [Music] foreign play the podcast for each episode we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film today we're doing something different so I'm here with part of the screenplay team Trisha arand

hello everyone and we are joined by a very special guest so anyone who is familiar with the lessons from the screenplay YouTube channel has surely heard me say probably more times than they care in his book the anatomy of story John truby writes uh because it's one of if not the most referenced book

in the videos on lessons from the screenplay he has a new book out called the anatomy of genres how story forms explain the way the world works and he is here to chat with us about it John truby welcome to the show well thank you for having me I I can couldn't be more excited to be here with

the in this fantastic podcast and uh talking about my favorite subject I am yes I'm so I'm also really excited so uh just as a little bit of History so your your previous book the anatomy of story was kind of the first screenplay book that clicked for me and it's not overstating things to say that I don't

think lessons from the screenplay would be what it became without that book because it was the first time you know I think you have this really great ability to take things that I feel like implicitly I kind of had a fuzzy idea of because I've seen so many movies and I know you know there's something at work

here but I can't quite put my finger on it uh and you're able to sharpen those ideas and focus them so that then you can like grab a hold of them and use them as a tool and so I really really loved anatomy of story it opened my eyes to so many things and Anatomy genres is awesome and going

to do the same thing and you're getting into more detail and I'm really excited about all of it so uh kind of just to start I'm curious like why what made you want to write the anatomy of genres and how do you feel like it's a continuation or a partner or what's its relationship to the anatomy of story

well it's Michael it's all it's actually a very interesting Evolution on how it came about it it was the product of about 50 years of work in the last five years of writing so it's been quite the project I wasn't quite sure I could finish a marathon that went on for that long but luckily I did but to give

you some background about how this book came about you know a lot of times when I talk to writers about what I do they say oh yeah I know all about story um they say I use 3x structure or I use the hero's journey or you save the cat and they think well that's all I need and here's the problem and I really