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A review by a_little_person
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri, Gilbert Miller
medium-paced
2.5
I cannot agree with everything written in the book. The book is more black&white than I thought at the beginning. I feel some elitisme through it's pages, which can seem condescending at some passages (i.e. the one about "genius"). Overall it has good advices, but they are put on a pedestal which is not deserved.
The dialectical Q&A's rubbed me the wrong way. It just felt like asking himself questions, which asserts his thesis. I feel like many arguments could have been made against his writing rules, with examples to back them up. On a more important note, I think the philosophy behind the "why" of writing, and what art is suppose to do is shortsighted, and dissmisive of other aesthetic philosophies.
He also sparsely adopts a sarcastic tone which do not fit with the intend of the book - which longs to be instructional.
The dialectical Q&A's rubbed me the wrong way. It just felt like asking himself questions, which asserts his thesis. I feel like many arguments could have been made against his writing rules, with examples to back them up. On a more important note, I think the philosophy behind the "why" of writing, and what art is suppose to do is shortsighted, and dissmisive of other aesthetic philosophies.
He also sparsely adopts a sarcastic tone which do not fit with the intend of the book - which longs to be instructional.