CONFLICT IN CINEMA DRAMA (PHYLOSOPHY)

Posted on 23.01.202423.01.2024 by Short Movie Club

We ended our last article on the psychology of conflict with an insightful point about the gap between our intuitive understanding of life and the laws of conflict creation and development set out in Aristotle’s Poetics. Especially when it comes to movie productions of mass culture, where happy-end stories dominate, evil is punished and the[…]

CONFLICT IN CINEMA DRAMA (PSYCHOLOGY)

Posted on 19.10.202319.10.2023 by Short Movie Club

Alexander Polybinsky, playwright, psychologist, researcher of the psychology of creativity. Psychology of conflict in film drama Popular film drama manuals are increasingly looking like a mathematics reference book. The main beats are already indicated on the script timeline: call to adventure at 15 minutes, first turning beat at 30, and second one — at half an[…]