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I don't think one avoid being manipulative in any form of *mainstream* storytelling because it's very essence is mass manipulation. What you can do is –
(A)
#mainstream #hollywood
(A)
#mainstream #hollywood
a) Stick with arthouse / highbrow storytelling and seek genuine enlightenment through creativity, sacrificing popularity and profit;
or –
(B)
#arthouse #creativity
or –
(B)
#arthouse #creativity
b) Within the mainstream, be so subtle in manipulating your audience that they don't feel being manipulated.
Which means "emulating arthouse within mainstream".
(C)
#highbrow #screenwriter
Which means "emulating arthouse within mainstream".
(C)
#highbrow #screenwriter
The latter method involves deliberately triggering wider and more specific range of emotions than an average, crude, token "lizard brain" emotions purged by a typical blockbuster.
(D: End of thread.)
#blockbuster #emotions
(D: End of thread.)
#blockbuster #emotions
