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“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
“Well, THAT just happened.”
“Hey, uh, maybe DON’T do that?
“You’ve all heard these lines before.
have taken flak for it on the film side.
You know the sort of thing I mean.
It has a certain rhythm and cadence.
It’s light and snarky, delivered fast and throwaway.
It’s largely comedic, with one character’s speech often setting up another’s punchline.
Now, I’m not saying this is a bad thing.
When done right, this lighter kind of writingsparkles, it’s pure champagne!
Wodehouse were both working in this wheelhouse, arguably even certain Shakespearean comedies.
Sometimesespeciallyif it’s not intentional.
But bad comedy, by definition, can’t be funny.
Good or bad, this dialogue is everywhere, even in forms that you might not expect.
And to be honest, I barely questioned it in any of these cases.
But then I started playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and that was suddenly no longer the case.
Ilikethat these 15th century Bohemians don’t act like they have a favorite brand of vape pen.
I like that they’re not embarrassed to be medieval.
Talketh the talk
And thinking back, I’ve always enjoyed this sort of thing.
Good character writing is nearly always a matter of building empathy between the audience and characters.
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