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There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'buildin
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| 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'.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs
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To: Sans-Culotte
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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:01:00 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Gamecock
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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:01:07 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Rockpile
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:05:21 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Gamecock
You don't include
Death Blow!, which broke completely new ground.
"DEATH BLOW! When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are but, for different reasons altogether."
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:22:21 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: Gamecock
Maude: "Lord... You can imagine where it goes from here."
The Dude: "He fixes the cable?"
Maude: "Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey."
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:26:26 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: SaveFerris
Remember the Gilligans Island episode where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up somehow? 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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:31:16 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: Boardwalk
“Some TV shows, like Threes 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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:36:07 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: SaveFerris
Remember the Star Trek episode where Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a red shirted security guy beam down to an alien planet?
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posted on
07/08/2016 8:53:55 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
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To: rbg81
Are you suggesting they have plots?
90
posted on
07/08/2016 9:20:37 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: cuban leaf
+1
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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:23:10 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: SaveFerris
Remember the Gilligans Island episode where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up somehow? You're right Skipper!
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:28:58 PM PDT
by
stig
To: catnipman
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. Accept for the invasion of the body snatcher parody, I was a kid when I saw that scared me to death.
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:38:54 PM PDT
by
stig
To: stig
Sorry that should be Except... it’s late
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:40:05 PM PDT
by
stig
To: the OlLine Rebel
That’s why he was a literary genius, poe invented the 7th
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:46:24 PM PDT
by
Mount Athos
(A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
To: Gamecock
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.
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posted on
07/08/2016 9:51:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Gamecock; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
If anything, that's probably optimistic, although I wonder which of the sixth includes "Timon of Athens". Thanks Gamecock.
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posted on
07/08/2016 10:49:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: Gamecock
http://tvtropes.org/
TV Tropes covers just about every plot, character, cliché, device, genre etc. you can imagine.
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posted on
07/08/2016 10:58:04 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Gamecock
There are three chords in rock songs.
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posted on
07/08/2016 11:32:42 PM PDT
by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
To: metmom
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posted on
07/09/2016 1:12:40 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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