Movies can teach you a lot. About how Hollywood screenwriters think the world works, and how they think human psychology and relationships work, for example.
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PS if screenwriters portrayed characters who were really good at resolving conflict using their words, they wouldn't have enough conflict to drive a plot. So, screenwriters cannot portray good roles models for marriage, friendship, or political discussion. This is harmful, IMHO.
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This was interesting in Star Trek TNG. The characters could resolve conflict with words so they had to be extra careless putting themselves into dangerous situations to get themselves out of. "Unknown planet blocking our sensors? Beam a bunch of senior crew right into it. Now!"
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I've seriously considered trying to turn this into an actual screenplay.https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/151225261055/the-empress-and-the-rebel …
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This is good. It's reflective of what good conflict should be. Characters should believe in their flaws. They can't just be 'hurt' and 'broken' and act nonsensically. They have to have deeply held beliefs that are in competition. It should be a war of ideas instantiated in people
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Never thought of it that way. Interesting take.
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Oh I’ve thought about this a lot. Same with lots of popular music - country music specifically - celebrates unhealthy emotional regulatory strategies.
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This is probably why most Hollywood depictions of marriages involve horrible ones that require “counselling”
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It's one of the fundamentally hard problems in creating fiction. Richard Linklater's stuff is some of the best I've seen at more relatable storytelling in cinema:https://twitter.com/JohnCGreer/status/1163047520362270721 …
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Get to know lots of people who cluster around the median and you find they relate very much to depictions of conflict in popular culture. That is to say, Hollywood understands well how dysfunctional most people are, and gives them what they want (ie, what they can understand).
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Screenwriters can write fantastic material, and be told by "development execs" who have little idea of what makes something popular (thus their desire to keep remaking old successful movies) that "nobody wants to see that." Hollywood is a clubhouse terrified of heterodox plots.
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Hence the postmodernism in the productions. Guaranteed conflict.
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