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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
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Subject: Re: New and Novel Ideas in Film
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 09:45:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 09:45:32 1986
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> >A book by Wells Root called "Writing the Script" says there are only about 
> >thirty-six basic dramatic situations and goes onto a list a few of them.
> 
>                                                 Andy Warhol's
> 'Watermellons' was a classic underground film.  I doubt if you can find the
> plot of 'Watermellons' as one of your standard "thirty-six" plots.

Robert Heinlein once claimed there were three, count 'em, three plots:
	1) boy meets girl
	2) the little tailor
	3) the man who learned better
(He later added a fourth, which escapes me.)

He's probably right.  But, then, not every movie has a plot either.

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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