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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For later.
The Greeks covered that millennia ago.
This is just reprinting what every HS student who graduated before 1975 knows.
Robert Heinlein once wrote that all fiction follows one of 3 plot lines: The Little Tailor, The Man Who Learned Better and Boy Meets Girl.
I was gonna read the thread but there are 5 others that caught my interest at the same time.
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NO story! NOTHING happens!
You read? You read on TV?
I don’t think so-called ‘relationship humor’ is what this show is all about.
I would think coffee machine would be more accurate.
JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he’s the same - but everyone else is different!
KRAMER: Which one?
JERRY: They were all like that!
I can remember watching an interview with Garry Marshall. In it, he mentioned that when they wrote episodes for “Laverne and Shirley”, he and his writers would take scripts from “The Odd Couple” and re-tweak them to fit that show but then would sometimes keep the same scenes and dialogue word by word. Nobody noticed the near duplicate similarities between the “Odd Couple” and “Laverne and Shirley” apparently, lol.
Seems to me I normally see about 3 in Seinfeld, a couple other shows I watched regularly.
Maybe that’s about 3 obvious ones running concurrently.
Also most TV shows have two plots. A and B.
A is the main one and they have a second one, I guess to keep you from getting bored. Rarely there will be 3.
Let’s try to connect the dots:
The Pain and the Yearning=The Muted Heart
Brown-Eyed Girl=Rochelle, Rochelle
Checkmate=Agent Zero
Blimp=Chunnel
The English Patient=Checkmate
Exactly! Aristotle had this figured out long ago.
Total BS.
If it weren’t for the language, I’d post the Rich Hall ‘Tom Cruise sketch’ video. It brought me to tears of laughter.
Yeah, though it looks like Rich Hall is a committed leftist. sigh
Wasn’t it Poe who said there are just 7 story lines?
Which I always think of whenever some rrognt fringe fanatic whines that some movie is just the same as prior movie.
Guy stumbles into job.
Guy fakes it at job for a while.
Guy gets traded to Tyler Chicken and has to start looking for another job or get his unemployment extended for another 13 weeks.
I noticed a while back that most 1 hour action/drama shows have the same structure.
Protagonist(s) confronted with problem. Plan is made to resolve issue. Plan goes awry. An on the fly solution is successfully constructed.
Some TV shows, like Three’s Company, had the same plot every show.
Sir Trump shall vanquish Witch Rod-Ham, and her flying monkey, Bubba.
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