If anything, that's probably optimistic, although I wonder which of the sixth includes "Timon of Athens". Thanks Gamecock.
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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Rockford was one of the best TV shows ever made.
Nichols was also rather good but short lived. I was never big on Maverick but it was OK.
My Grandmother on my mother’s side was a script writer way back in the early days of Hollywood. Writing scripts wasn’t such a big deal for her. Just move a few things around, know her synonyms to change a few words, and nobody knew it wasn’t original.
She used to write for radio shows such as Bob Burns, and the like. Prior to retiring she wrote documentaries in the forties, and fifties at the L.A. Museum about the La Brea Tar Pits, etc.
She knew the rule of thumb.
Supposedly this DVD (93 minutes) should be the uncut version. The “cut” DVD/Blu-Ray is 91 minutes.
"DEATH BLOW! When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are but, for different reasons altogether."
That one's almost as good as the one where somebody new comes to the Island and manages to leave without rescuing anybody but himself.
“Some TV shows, like Three’s Company, had the same plot every show.”
The Dick Van Dyke Show had the same plot for every episode: Laura Petrie was foolishly jealous of her husband Rob Petrie for foolish reasons and gives Rob the cold shoulder, Rob freaks out, but eventually Laura realizes she was foolish, and they make up by the end of the show.
Remember the Star Trek episode where Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a red shirted security guy beam down to an alien planet?
Are you suggesting they have plots?
Incindentally, the plot of every classic black & white movie ever made (or at least a subplot):
Boy meets girl.
Girl gets boy into pickle.
Boy gets pickle into girl.
You're right Skipper!
Accept for the invasion of the body snatcher parody, I was a kid when I saw that scared me to death.
Sorry that should be Except... it’s late
That’s why he was a literary genius, poe invented the 7th
Then there are KDramas
Rich chaebol meets poor girl
Chaebol’s mom hates the girl and threatens to take away his money if he marries her.
Chaebol defies mom and marries her anyway.
If anything, that's probably optimistic, although I wonder which of the sixth includes "Timon of Athens". Thanks Gamecock.
TV Tropes covers just about every plot, character, cliché, device, genre etc. you can imagine.
There are three chords in rock songs.
yep
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