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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Yeah, the actress wanted more money and whack! She was gone. Interestingly in the very next episode none of the supporting cast appeared. It was a message from the producers to the rest of the cast that they were replaceable as well. The actors all learned the lesson.
They all have the same time structure.
In a one hour time slot, there are 15 minutes of commercials, 45 minutes of show.
In that 45 minutes:
20 minutes- Protagonist(s) confronted with problem.
10 minutes- Plan is made to resolve issue.
5 minutes- Plan goes awry.
5 minutes- An on the fly solution is successfully constructed.
5 minutes- wrap up, smiles and hugs, bad guys taken away, killed, puppies found, etc. maybe a lead in to the next show.
PS- “I love it when a plan comes together” Col. Hannibal Smith.
Heinlein wrote a lot of the same stories or plotlines.
For instance: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.
He would write boy meets blonde/brunette girl, boy loses girl, boy gets better redheaded girl.
That’s why I always thread the needle.
Let me boil that down even more.
Dances with Wolves in space.
Lassie: I’ve been typecast, Doc. It is the same plot every episode. People cannot see me playing any other role. It’s driving me so crazy, I already hit the director.
Man against man.
Man against nature.
Man against himself.
Even the stories that have "nonhuman" heroes those heroes have been anthropomorphised so they still fit into one of the three categories.
That’s a great caption!
Timon of Athens, he was a chump,
'Cause all of his money was lent,
Now it's spent,
And he can't,
Pay the rent,
And he has to go live in a tent!
Note: this topic is from . Thanks Gamecock.
Man vs Nature
Man vs God
Man vs Man and
Man vs himself.
Covers pretty much everything.
No one watched Three's Company for the plot. It was cheesecake and gags.
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