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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1986967" data-attributes="member: 1645">Earlier I noted that Hollywood isn't trying to protect us; Hollywood is trying to sell tickets.There's another point though: a Hollywood movie isn't meant to be a complete depiction of life or even a random (statistically valid) slice of life; it depicts a particular conflict playing out through its resolution.&nbsp; A Hollywood movie often shows many terrible, negative things.&nbsp; The inciting incident that kicks off the action is something bad.&nbsp; The rising conflict is, naturally, a sequence of bad things.&nbsp; Then, when the conflict is resolved, we end the movie.If we were to make a Hollywood movie of your life, we wouldn't start at the beginning of your life, include everything in the middle, and end today; we'd find an interesting conflict, set it up, watch it play out, then witness the resolution.&nbsp; And that's all we'd put into the narrative.&nbsp; That's what a Hollywood film is: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 1986967, member: 1645"] Earlier I noted that Hollywood isn't trying to protect us; Hollywood is trying to sell tickets. There's another point though: a Hollywood movie isn't meant to be a complete depiction of life or even a random (statistically valid) slice of life; it depicts a particular conflict playing out through its resolution. A Hollywood movie often shows many terrible, negative things. The inciting incident that kicks off the action is something bad. The rising conflict is, naturally, a sequence of bad things. Then, when the conflict is resolved, [i]we end the movie[/i]. If we were to make a Hollywood movie of your life, we wouldn't start at the beginning of your life, include everything in the middle, and end today; we'd find an interesting conflict, set it up, watch it play out, then witness the resolution. And that's all we'd put into the narrative. That's what a Hollywood film [i]is[/i]: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. [/QUOTE]

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