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Post by toomuchchanmin on Jan 24, 2016 11:46:32 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_PlotsThere is a theory that all the stories we love are all just seven stories told in slightly different ways. 1. Overcoming a Monster The main characters have to overcome an opposing force and achieve victory. Examples: Star Wars, Dracula, War of the Worrlds 2. Rags to Riches A poor main protagonist starts out very poor or in poor conditions but becomes succesful in the end. Examples: Cinderella, The Prince and the Pauper 3. The Quest Main characters must go on a quest to acquire something or to a certain location for a destination Examples: The Hobbit, Iliad, Indiana Jones 4. Voyage and Return The main character goes on a quest but returns with nothing but experience. Examples: Odyssey, The Wizard of Oz, Finding Nemo 5. Comedy A funny story where main characters face funny situations and results in happy conclusion Examples: Mr. Bean 6. Tragedy The main character becomes a villain or meet a tragic death in the end. Examples: Hamlet, Breaking Bad 7. Rebirth The main character goes through a change and change how they live Examples: A Christmas Carol, Despicable Me I find it funny Star Wars qualify to all 7. So stories do overlap. But what do you think about this theory? I personally do believe this, even though there should be some exceptions.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on Jan 24, 2016 12:32:41 GMT
Let's see...
I can't think of a story that isn't some variation of those 7, so I guess I believe it. Mystery stories can be counted as number 3, I know one story that closely follows number 4 outside of the ending (the main character does learn, but doesn't return), and...
Uhhh....
Anyway, I think it's pretty weird if every story has the same structure. Of course, the themes, conflict, setting, characters are usually different, but I'm not sure how I feel about all stories being similar. Then again, it's like a car. They all have different components and purposes, but in the end, they're all cars. So in the long run, it's probably not a problem.
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Post by Jonathan on Jan 24, 2016 14:28:49 GMT
LOL This is pretty interesting. After reading your post, I thought about it and find that really it all fits in the 7 kinds of stories. It's really interesting where millions or even billions of stories come out only from 7 kinds of stories. I really like how Regy uses a car to compare all of them. If a story is able to tell its readers the purpose of the story, it's a great story. It is very interesting and very mysterious at the same time. Maybe someone can find a story to veto this theory.
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Post by jungseunghoon16 on Jan 24, 2016 18:10:56 GMT
This sure is a convincing theory about movies. I personally love movies and watch a lot of movies and your theory seems to match! I mean, there are stories with sad themes, like a movie that is made to make the audience cry. I think that the theory would be perfect if there are some morals added onto the themes of movies. Like the different kinds of morals that the movies want to teach to the audience. I think the themes are limited to the 7 Chanmin mentioned because of the interests of the audiences.
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Post by jonah21 on Jan 30, 2016 10:17:40 GMT
In order to create something new, we have to get the idea for it from something we experienced before. I need to write a story and it needs to have characters. For me, when I create my characters, I usually think of something that I experienced and shape my character around that. It's not the exact same, but it's somewhat similar. Stories may have distinctive plots and themes, but ultimately, they fall into one of the 7 kinds of stories. I think that every story would have to fall underneath one of these. Although it may not be EXACTLY in that style, it still has some features of it.
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Post by erickim on Jan 31, 2016 5:44:10 GMT
Now that I actually think about it, all of the stories I can thin is actually in those seven categories. Doesn't matter wheter the story is happy or sad or anything it just fits into one of the categories you have listed. What if your category is like a theory of every stories that can possibly exist that has a good story?? I mean like all the Disney movies are in the category too. Maybe someone can break this theory for us
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Post by sangjoon on Jan 31, 2016 6:03:10 GMT
Actually, I did not even know that there are only seven types of story genre exists in movie field. However, I believe that there are more than seven for sure. As what you said, it is possible to be mixed movie of many genres and that is hard to cluncoolify in those 7 kinds of story genre what you mentioned.
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Post by graceyichen on Jan 31, 2016 9:41:57 GMT
It's just like how we can understand people from another time because we have the same human natures. The same things happen in every humans life, just in different forms. It's interesting that despite the fact that every story comes from one of the 7 basic plots, we don't get tired of them. New movies or books come out and we still like them. I guess it's because there's nothing much we can do to change life. It's just the same pattern everywhere.
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Post by heesu on Jan 31, 2016 14:05:44 GMT
I think there are more plots in the world. It depends on how we interpret the story. Event hough we read the same story, we see different meanings of the story. We see many stories on the SNS and internet. Now, we can see many different types of stories. I think people will create more variety of plots in the future because we keep seeing all different types of stories.
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Post by Emily on Feb 6, 2016 1:54:46 GMT
It's interesting how you found those 7 themes, and I think that it is true. Those themes are both general yet specific to a certain topic at the same time so they can encompuncool a lot of stories. So I think that there will be only be those 7 types of plots, with just many variations of each different plot.
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Post by riyadh on Feb 14, 2016 13:32:04 GMT
I agree with you toomuchchanmin.. and does not matter how many are there .. the matter is that you can understand the story . time . the people on that time. the culture. the characters so as long you can understand them you will read any kind of those stories ..............
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Post by melody on Feb 14, 2016 18:06:09 GMT
I believe it. Isn't that the same thing with life? Life might be more complicated and entertaining, but when we track them down, they'll be divided just like the 7 genres. They can happen simultaneously or solemnly but still, life is kind of simple. They'll be love, monsters (people that you'll be imagining them as monsters), some tasks that you've to overcome, quests that you have to take in mandatory, rags to riches or riches to rags, voyage and return from places to places, and they're be always laughter and tears as well. One thing I'm not sure about will be rebirth since I've never been dead before. But movies are based on our lives. And for your themes, you should add love!
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Post by andrewcho77 on Feb 28, 2016 12:20:49 GMT
It's cool you can make into 7 themes. I believe that it is true to have 7 themes in a story. However, these just make it vague so it can fit into a lot of categories. Yeah, I also agree with melody that it's similar to life. Those themes can make us relate and connect with the story so we love the story. Even though there will be similar plots, we will watch the movie and have similar feelings for it.
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