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To: cloudmountain

How about: Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl.

Pretty common theme, if I recall correctly. :)


326 posted on 07/22/2014 7:27:35 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Utilizer
How about: Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl.
Pretty common theme, if I recall correctly. :)

Yep, that's one of the seven themes. SEE BELOW.

From the Internet:

1. Overcoming the Monster: The hero learns of a great evil and goes on a journey to destroy it. Star Wars qualifies. Braveheart. Jaws. Any movie with Nazis in it.

2. Rags to Riches: A sad-sack beginning that leads to a happily ever after. A lot of Dickens’ stuff fits here. Disney princess movies. Harry Potter. Most every rom-com.

3. The Quest: Everybody loves a quest where the hero goes on a journey to find something, which can be a Lost Ark (literal of figurative), a body (Stand By Me), or even something unknown and unseen, which is known in Hollywood as a MacGuffin.

4. Voyage and Return: Like The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy goes to a weird place with weird rules but ultimately returns home better off. I suppose I like Oz alright, but I’d rather give props to Back to the Future, because I’m of that ilk.

5. Comedies get their own category, too. For some reason, two people can’t be together, which creates all sorts of antics. They eventually figure it out, though. Again, most every rom-com ever, like When Harry Met Sally, or The Money Pit.

6. Tragedies are like riches to rags, where the villain gets it in the end. MacBeth and King Lear are classic examples.

7. Rebirth is like a tragedy but where the hero realizes his error before it’s too late, like in It’s a Wonderful Life.

327 posted on 07/22/2014 8:38:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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