September 11, 2009
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Dramatic Situations
Forms of conflict or foundations of drama and a basis of opinion, can be combined and worked out into new solutions. They might be antiquated but they number at least twelve ( 12 ). Adultery, Crime, Cruelty or Misfortune, Daring Enterprise, Deliverance, Disaster, Erroneous Judgment, Enigma, Madness, Passion, Psychology, Supplication.
Action should be varied contrasting slow with fast story sections together. Beauty is idealism in some degree is necessary to shaping of the photo-play. Comedy can end in marriage and other pleasantries. Drama is the fighting against the hopeless and the drab things of the Earth. Humor should be inclusive as comic relief to tragedy, character-work, amusing section and a touch of human interest with animal or child maintaining a balance avoiding “too serious”. Literature notes the pendulum swings too far in history allowing writers to fall into other extremes. Love lends a vitalizing influence to the whole scheme of things and should not be omitted. Tragedy usually ends in a privative state of health. Truth in art has more to do with the probable than the possible ( Aristotle ).
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