{"id":1676,"date":"2014-09-16T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obrown.ca\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2014-09-16T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T10:02:52","slug":"comic-characters-flat-or-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/comic-characters-flat-or-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Characters: Flat or Round?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJwFQ5Mt-U0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems that it could be hard to laugh at a character&#8217;s misfortune if you empathize too much. Robert McKee explains what distinguishes a comic character from a dramatic character.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='one_half'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Quotes of the Week:<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0Mark van Doren<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='one_half et_column_last'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Featured Article:<\/h4>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1550\/the-art-of-humor-no-1-woody-allen\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Woody Allen: The Art of Humor No. 1\u00a0&#8220;<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The Paris Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Paris Review<\/em>&#8216;s Michiko Kakutani talks with the acclaimed writer \/ director of ANNIE HALL about the craft of comedic storytelling.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='clear'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that it could be hard to laugh at a character&#8217;s misfortune if you empathize too much. Robert McKee explains what distinguishes a comic character from a dramatic character. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}