Musical wisdom from Michal Kunze

[yukinojou]

A lot of scriptwriters should follow this ♥

In my translation:

Seven deadly sins of writers of musicals:

1. The story is predictable
2. The audience feels no empathy with the protagonist
3. The protagonist learns nothing from the story and remains unchanged
4. The theme isn't explored/analysed
5. Songs tell the audience what they already know
6. All characters act and sing in the same way
7. Ten minutes in, you still don't know what's going on

Comments

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Hum. I can hardly find a musical I like where at least someone doesn't die (preferably a bunch of someones, and if possible through their own hand / the hand of their shadow self represented by a mute porcelain child / vampires), but I can think of scarcely anything where people get raped. Which is good, because that's one of the things I can't put up with.

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

The one I'm writing involves a bunch of deaths, incestuous overtones, threesomes in dance format, the ends justifying the means, none of the principals having had good childhoods, closeted homosexuality, psychosis in one of the principals, and nobody coming out of the ending morally clean, so you can imagine what I like to listen to.