Try to fit that into their box.
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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Aristotle’s Poetics.
I’m pretty sure Rochelle Rochelle = Emmanuelle but it could equal other things too.
Remember the Gilligan’s Island episode where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up somehow?
Huma would make the perfect flying monkey! I can just picture her in the makeup! Huma would look good as the Wicked Witch too. Birds of a feather.
Then there’s the Hillary lies, Hillary lies again, Hillary continues to lie. It’s the same as Obama lies, Obama lies again, Obama continues to lie.
Bookmark.
That Gilligan!
Police Squad. Bad guy commits crime, cop pays shoe shine guy for information, bad guy gets arrested and freeze-frame credits.
Exactly six episodes.
Huma is the head guard. O-Re-o ho hum.
I liked the other episode where the Skipper hit Gilligan with his hat and the Professor made some incredible invention using coconuts!
Little did we know those were the good old days.
Try to fit that into their box.
No, that was Lost in Space. Robinsons are on the way back to Earth and Dr. Smith screws it up somehow. And monsters.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Wasn’t Seinfeld the 7th arc: A show about nothing?
Well, all of the Russ Meyer films.
Frank: It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.
They were waitress-ing at the coffee shop near me.
Guy goes to return pants. Guy slips on mud and ruins the very pants he was returning. Guy sells his story for hundreds of dollars.
I learned about that in college.
Man vs Man
Man vs himself
Etc
I’m starting to suspect Dr. Smith is evil and a boob.
But that’s just me.
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