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The characters do not know what is coming.
The fact that the American characters do not know what is going on in Moscow, and do not care what is going on in Havana, captures precisely the tone of the many memoirs which emerged from the Kennedy administration.
"What was so wonderful and liberating was when I met Hilary and she said, 'If I can give you one piece of advice it's to remember that these characters do not know that they are in history,'" he recalled.
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Characters knowing things other characters don't know.
The reader knowing things that the characters don't know.
But the characters don't know these things.
Tormented as they are, his characters don't know what to do about it but yell.
The characters don't know, and the audience, invited to suspend disbelief, doesn't either.
"Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are," Rabe told Bomb magazine in 2005.
"What we liked about the story is that the characters don't know what's going on" says Ethan (or Joel), "----yet the audience doestepvery step of the way," says Joel (or Ethan).
To keep the audience interested, you have to keep reminding them in subtle ways what the stakes are, what's gone wrong, what the characters don't know… and that has to be in the cut-scenes, the game play, the environment, the dialogue… Reflecting the mood of the whole game in the chatter between characters – that's an interesting one.
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