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There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'buildin
Dailymail ^ | 8 July 2016 | Stacy Liberatore

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'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
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To: Gamecock

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.


121 posted on 07/09/2016 11:03:27 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris

They tried to sell the Butler show to Nakatome Broadcasting Company but were told they must go now.


122 posted on 07/09/2016 11:04:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Bookman


123 posted on 07/09/2016 11:08:47 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

We call that the Three’s Company ‘misunderstanding episode’.


124 posted on 07/09/2016 11:37:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

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.


125 posted on 07/09/2016 11:39:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

The biggest threes company “misunderstanding” was apparently when Suzanne Sommers wanted more money because she thought she was the star.


126 posted on 07/09/2016 11:46:17 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

;)


127 posted on 07/09/2016 12:15:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Boardwalk

“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?


128 posted on 07/09/2016 9:21:20 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Gamecock

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!


129 posted on 07/09/2016 10:56:25 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

That made it easier for james garner to remember his lines.


130 posted on 07/10/2016 3:46:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: dsc
Didn’t NCIS redo that one?

Monk did it too.

131 posted on 07/10/2016 5:12:01 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: Rastus
There was an A-Team episode that reused a Starsky & Hutch script. In both, a main character was wounded and in danger of dying in a restaurant being controlled by a hostage taker.

They did that one on Flashpoint too.

132 posted on 07/10/2016 5:13:07 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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To: cuban leaf

Star Trek a western. So Mr. Sulu was Miss Kitty?


133 posted on 07/10/2016 6:25:38 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Gamecock

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.


134 posted on 07/10/2016 6:31:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SaveFerris

Or the repeating plotline from Cold Case (CBS): Whitey did it.


135 posted on 07/10/2016 6:32:56 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: discostu

How about Man vs Machine? :) Or is that a variant of Man vs Man?


136 posted on 07/10/2016 8:09:25 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Gamecock

Permutations of rise and fall. Insightful...


137 posted on 07/10/2016 8:16:46 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: PLMerite

Sounds like today’s liberal TV; not surprised.


138 posted on 07/10/2016 9:42:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Borges

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.


139 posted on 07/10/2016 9:48:48 AM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: jalisco555

“Monk did it too.”

Is that what happened to Sharona? I wondered about that.


140 posted on 07/10/2016 10:01:31 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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