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Q&A What is the base on which movies writers integrate typical characters into a plot?

After reading the book Of Mice and Men from John Steinbeck, I realised that I saw this typical combination of a small bright guy with a big strong not so bright guy in many movies... Ex: The dalton...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by tom johnes‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T08:51:52Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/36262
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar tom johnes‭ · 2019-12-08T08:51:52Z (over 4 years ago)
After reading the book `Of Mice and Men` from `John Steinbeck`, I realised that I saw this typical combination of a small bright guy with a big strong not so bright guy in many movies... Ex: The daltons of Lucky Luke... in which the biggest is the dumbest and the smallest is the smartest

So do writers have sort of a database of typical psychological profile that they decide to use to write movies plots ? How do they mix them all together... I'm asking this because I want to watch movies differently...

I'd like to be able, after identifying the psychological profile of the hero of the movie, to guess what type of other character could be introduced into the movie to make it go this way or that way...

Please redirect my question to the correct forum if it should not be here...

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-05-19T09:07:01Z (almost 6 years ago)
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