How many plots in movies, books?

[Taltarzac725]

I have been doing a little research on how many basic movie/book plots there are and have come up with a wide variety of answers. 7, 10, 30 and 36 general plot lines have been mentioned in articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations


The plays of Shakespeare for instance have various but often very similiar plots with respect to what genre they are in-- tragedy, history, comedy, romance, etc.

Any English majors out there want to pitch in on this??

[senior citizen]

I have been doing a little research on how many basic movie/book plots there are and have come up with a wide variety of answers. 7, 10, 30 and 36 general plot lines have been mentioned in articles. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations)


The plays of Shakespeare for instance have various but often very similiar plots with respect to what genre they are in-- tragedy, history, comedy, romance, etc.

Any English majors out there want to pitch in on this??

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray


The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.


W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up

[Taltarzac725]

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray


The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.


W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Summing Up


Neat quotes.