Posted on 07/08/2016 5:38:05 PM PDT by Gamecock
There are just 6 plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'building blocks' of storytelling
From Harry Potter and Romeo and Juliet to the stories of Oedipus and Icarus, almost every tale told conforms to one of just six plots, researchers have claimed.
A major new analysis of over 1,700 stories identified the core plots 'which form the building blocks of complex narratives'.
Researchers used complex data-mining to locate words linked to positive or negative emotion in each story to reveal the set of arcs.
An emotional arc is similar to a plot building block that tells a story by generating an emotional response from the reader, reports MIT Review.
For example, 'man falls into hole, man gets out of hole' or one of the most well-know, 'boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl'.
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Detective book:
Grizzled detective struggles with demons and alcoholism and his wife and kid hate him. He gets assigned to a serial killer case, and a young female detective is assigned as his partner, over his objections. He struggles with his demons and solves the case; during the investigation the young detective is either killed or he bangs her, or both. He achieves some level or other of spiritual solace but his wife and kid still hate him. He throws his badge in the river.
They tried to sell the Butler show to Nakatome Broadcasting Company but were told they must go now.
Bookman
We call that the Three’s Company ‘misunderstanding episode’.
He was a pretty good war of the world guy until he had a crisis of confidence and couldn’t fight the world anymore then he met a good-lookin’ woman who convinced him to be a good war of the world guy.
The biggest threes company “misunderstanding” was apparently when Suzanne Sommers wanted more money because she thought she was the star.
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“The biggest threes company “misunderstanding” was apparently when Suzanne Sommers wanted more money because she thought she was the star.”
Didn’t NCIS redo that one?
I Dream of Jeannie had only only one plot. Who cares? She was fine to look at.
Lassie had only one plot. Timmy gets lost or falls down the well. Lassie, go get help!
That made it easier for james garner to remember his lines.
Monk did it too.
They did that one on Flashpoint too.
Star Trek a western. So Mr. Sulu was Miss Kitty?
LMN- Lifetime Movie Network theme is that all white men are evil and/or stupid brutes. All plots on that network revolve around that them. They make tons of money.
Or the repeating plotline from Cold Case (CBS): Whitey did it.
How about Man vs Machine? :) Or is that a variant of Man vs Man?
Permutations of rise and fall. Insightful...
Sounds like today’s liberal TV; not surprised.
Not sure if they’d count as nature or man. Probably depends on people like the machines are. Pick a bucket, any bucket.
I’ve got an author friend who puts them all in one bucket, he says all stories boil down to: things were going along, then something unexpected happened.
“Monk did it too.”
Is that what happened to Sharona? I wondered about that.
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