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“In a comedy, the protagonist will make a 180-degree change from their FLAW to its polar opposite, the STRENGTH, by the very end. In order to achieve this about-face, the writer needs to take their protagonist to the protagonist’s own rock bottom, where no good options are in sight. Only at this lowest point with no good options will the protagonist be forced to finally change and move in a direction different from their FLAW.”
― Jill Chamberlain, The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting

“The CRISIS typically puts the protagonist in between two bad options, a rock and a hard place, and the audience should feel that there is no other way out of this dilemma.”
― Jill Chamberlain, The Nutshell Technique: Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting