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The Blues Br...
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Forrest...
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The Termi...
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The Fug...
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The Wizard...
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2. Tragedy
heightening the sense of the hero’s might-have-been
Hamlet,
The Seven Samurai,
The Thomas Crow...
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Vertigo,
Amadeus,
Citizen Kane.
“heroes”:
Lear,
Glouc...
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Cordelia,
“We that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
in a world of immoral humans,
one man’s immense suffering has let him live deeply, but ...
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Pathos
Pathos is a moral argument that reduces the tragic hero to an everyman and appeals to the audience by showing the beauty of endurance, lost causes, and the doomed man.
But they also feel a deep admiration for the beautiful failure, the good fight, and the hero’s refusal to admit defeat.
A Streetcar Named Desire,
Ikiru
The Conversation,
Cinema Paradiso.
Satire and Irony
comedy of beliefs,
Irony is a form of story logic in which a character gets the opposite of what he wants and takes action to get.
contrast between a character who thinks he is being
those actions and beliefs, which are decidedly immoral.
hero lives within a clearly defined social system.
M*A*S*H,
Being John Malkovich,
Trading Places),
Private Benjamin,
EMMA
Black Comedy
Black comedy is the comedy of the logic—or more exactly, the illogic—of a system.
that destruction is the result not so much of individual choice (like tragedy) but of individuals caught in a sys...
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self-revelation from the hero to give it more strongl...
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go after a negative goal that involves killing someone or destroying something.
In fact, it is totally illogical.
disaster. He functions as a chorus, but no one listens to him.
with everyone still thinking he is right.
self-revelation.
should have had a self-revelation that the audience has it instead.
their efforts to reach the goal.
Goodfellas,
