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It is quite common for a work of fiction to show a "Calm before the storm". Maintaining good humor after the tonal shift is much more difficult, and rare. The movie "Life Is Beautiful" is the firs...
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2019-12-08T09:13:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Alexander
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2019-12-08T09:13:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
It is quite common for a work of fiction to show a "Calm before the storm". Maintaining good humor after the tonal shift is much more difficult, and rare. The movie "[Life Is Beautiful](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Beautiful)" is the first example which comes to my mind. Much more common is that dramatic shift is serving for the purpose of characters' maturing up and losing their innocence (like in [Gone with the Wind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(novel))). So, don't worry about the tonal shift if your plot dictates it. Focus on your characters - do they stay realistic over the course of change? Someone can break, someone will get hardened, someone will laugh in the face of death.
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2018-06-25T21:58:44Z (over 6 years ago)
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