Scrivere la commedia. Pratica estrema per sceneggiatori coraggiosi

The essay explores screenwriting as the original form of the cinematic creative process, with a focus on comedy as an extreme laboratory for narrative and moral engagement with reality. Drawing on the reflections and practices of renowned Italian screenwriters – from Scarpelli to Sonego, from Cecchi D’Amico to Archibugi – it examines the social and cultural role of comic writing, capable of restoring narrative dignity to human experience. At its core lies the need to rediscover the craft of writing, the centrality of the human, and the moral responsibility of storytelling. When sincere, comedy unveils the hidden truth beneath laughter and continues to offer a critical, melancholic, and courageous perspective on the present.