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Here are some of my favorite movies: The Graduate, Taxi Driver, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Badlands, Mars Attacks, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Most of them do
by jonathanstrange 4y ago
Here are some of my favorite movies: The Graduate, Taxi Driver, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Badlands, Mars Attacks, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Most of them don't really satisfy this formula, except for trivial points like the protagonists wants something and the protagonist has changed or if you're deliberately trying to fit them by being extremely vague.
The reason is that there are many different types of stories and these can have very different internal structure. For example, Space Opera in science fiction is often just a fight of good vs. evil set at many different interesting locations. Of course, some protagonist should develop, hence change, and it's good to have some kind of unexpected plot twist, but these are trivialities.
- svnt 4y agoThe trivial points as you’ve called them are not really trivial, but they could be considered cliche, or if you like, ubiquitous, which is Harmon’s entire point.
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- jonathanstrange 4y agoWhy teach something cliché and ubiquitous as a general storytelling advice? I've written 10+ novels and am relatively certain that none of them would be better if I had based them on this "story circle" (Harmon's rendition of "hero's journey").
- citizenkeen 4y agoSounds like you don't need a website with a 101 label, then.
- jonathanstrange 4y agoFair enough. I just don't think it's good advice.
- nmilo 4y agoIt's as good advice as the ABABCB song structure is for writing pop songs. As cliche as they are, you need to understand the rules to know how to break them.
- jonathanstrange 4y agoLOL, you forgot the prechorus and a hook.
- amp108 4y agoBut nobody claims that ABABCB is the only song structure.