The 36 Dramatic Situations

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith

In a post on the Script Lab, Ken Miyamoto examines the 36 dramatic situations, popularized in a French text written in 1895 by Georges Polti, who analyzed classical works to identify the most common scenarios. Miyamoto presents cinematic versions of these thirty-six dramatic situations and how they are found within movies and TV series.