There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'buildin

Dailymail ^ | 8 July 2016 | Stacy Liberatore

[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'.

[cuban leaf]

Sometimes someone will lay a big technical document on my desk and I’ll say, “does the boy get the girl?”

[Rastus]

It’s actually a samurai movie. The main inspiration is Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress.

[cuban leaf]

Remember the Gilligan’s Island episode where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up somehow?

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Dang, I missed that one. Sounds like it could be pretty funny.

[PhiloBedo]

No one saw that one coming..

[cuban leaf]

Yep. The original Star Trek was also a western.

So was Gunsmoke, now that I think of it.

[PhiloBedo]

I thought the shoe-shine guy paid the cop? One of the funniest, but short lived series. Better than the movies. IMO.

[metmom]

Remember the Gilligan’s Island episode where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up somehow?

That was all of them....

[cuban leaf]

[MHGinTN]

I loved it when a plan came together. Murdock was my favorite character ...

[Larry Lucido]

That was from the first Naked Gun movie.

https://youtu.be/nTh9qpzhunE

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[HonkyTonkMan]

One of the best lines in show-bidness!

[wally_bert]

A great series that deserved more episodes.

[wally_bert]

McMillan and Wife ripped off an Ironside episode almost exactly including the freezer and frozen food time mistakes.

Sub the big Lincoln for the paddy wagon, lose Mark Sanger, lose Ed Brown for part of the episode and make the killer a very pretty black lady singer instead of a business type.

Ironside was better.

[wally_bert]

That could be one or two CHiPs episodes.

[Sans-Culotte]

A lot of episodes of The Rockford Files were reworked episodes of Maverick.

[dfwgator]

McMillan and Wife ripped off an Ironside episode almost exactly including the freezer and frozen food time mistakes. Sub the big Lincoln for the paddy wagon, lose Mark Sanger, lose Ed Brown for part of the episode and make the killer a very pretty black lady singer instead of a business type. Ironside was better.

Well both Ironside and McMillan were portrayed by poofters.

[reformedliberal]

Pain. Fear. Catharsis.

[wally_bert]

True but I will say Burr was very good as Mason and Ironside.

[Rockpile]

I tried to find the uncut recording of Swamp Thing but no luck.