We're on week three of our analysis of the film Crazy Rich Asians, which debuted in 2018, based on a 2013 novel of the same name.

This was a highly successful film sold as a romantic comedy, but as you heard in earlier episodes, there's a lot more going on in this movie than you first might expect.

This week we're diving into the story's theme and the genre conventions and obligatory moments.

This is the Storygrid podcast. I'm your host Tim Graal, a writer and CEO of Storygrid.

Joining me shortly is Rachel Arsenal, a Storygrid certified editor.

We're spending four weeks looking

closely at Crazy Rich Asians and how this masterwork story was constructed. We're going to use

the StoryGrid methodology created and developed by our founder, Sean Coyne. If you would like to

get a sneak peek into everything we're going to cover, you can go right now to storygrid.com

slash crazy to download a PDF of our completed analysis of crazy rich Asians.

Okay, let's jump in and get started.

Okay, so now that we've gotten on the same page with genre and I've gone back,

Rachel sent me back and said, why don't you try again?

It's time to delve into some specific things when we look at genre and those things are the

conventions and obligatory moments. So when we're talking about conventions and obligatory moments,

what are we referring to? Yeah, so conventions and obligatory moments, what are you referring to?

Yeah, so conventions and obligatory moments are what the audience expects to see based on genre.

And I think that generally, so Kim Kessler described it really well, like, ages ago.

I think it was at Story Grid Live back in 2019, which feels like 100 years ago. It's almost like conventions are sort of the nouns of things

that belong in the story. And obligatory moments are like the verbs that belong in the story.

And again, it just, when an audience shows up to a certain type of story and generally

write like a reader or a viewer won't tell you this, like, well, I'm sitting down to

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