Or the Swamp Thing variation: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy turns into plant.
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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Or the Swamp Thing variation: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy turns into plant.
They did break the fourth wall a couple of times.
Guy tries to tell a teletransport himself, guy’s DNA gets mixed with fly, man fly shoots himself.
It is not Dr. Smith’s fault.
He has a very delicate back.
LOL
My daughter caught on early. She always said the movies are all the same they just have different people in them.
Larry David show too. What did Larry do now?
Great article, but apparently most people like depressing stories :(
Did they account for Porno movies too? I think not.
Only one of those.
Seven if you include Seinfeld: “A show about nothing”.
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.
Sounds like the Obama story.
HA! The original Star Wars movie is a cowboy movie! Think about it!
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The A-Team was basically the same plot every week. Good guy/gal in distress, Hannibal brings the boys to beat the bad guys and save the day. Loved that show in the 80’s.
I read somewhere that Curb Your Enthusiasm used a lot of plot lines from the old Jack Benny Show.
That’s nothin’ In all the music ever written in the history of man there are only 12 notes.
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