but with comedy if no one is laughing then you have failed. at least with drama there is a larger margin of ambiguity with whether the performance is successful or not. cf. my parents highly praising an actor or actress anytime they get upset or freak out or cry or some shit

the master is not a film noir

kieslowski and lost and is a really interesting comparison… just saw white and red a couple days ago actually.

narrative is overvalued

writers who write to be successful fucking suck.

werner von braun worked with nasa