Subtext (advanced)

(uplifting music)…- Oh, look, just one cookie left.…- How did we eat them all?…- I think because they were just…so ridiculously delicious.…But you should take the last one.…- Are you sure?…- Yeah.…I insist.…- Oh, well, thanks.…(groans)…- Oh, did you really want it?…- No.…Well, kind of.…I mean it looked so good.…- Why didn't you say?…- I didn't want to sound greedy.…

- Well here, let's share it.…- Okay.…- Okay.…- Thank you.…- Did you notice in that whole cookie exchange…how Jess said one thing but really meant another?…- I said I didn't want the cookie,…but I actually did.…- Right.…And it's not just Jess who sometimes says…what she doesn't mean.…We humans do it all the time.…- And in fiction, we sometimes want to show…our characters doing the exact same thing.…- Great writers will often show characters…saying one thing but meaning another.…- And they do this because it actually…reveals a lot about a character.…

- If Jess was a character in a book,…we would know from our little cookie exchange…that she loves cookies, but she's also…