Storytelling Arc for Your Favorite Movie
by thenolanfan | created - 11 months ago | updated - 10 months ago | Public A team of UK scientists analyzed 6147 movies to prove that every movie can be lumped into one of six categories.
In which storytelling category would you place your favorite movie?
Discuss here after voting
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1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
PG | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 498,477 | Gross: $40.22M
Rags to Riches: A rise
2. Der Untergang (2004)
14A | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 322,729 | Gross: $5.51M
Riches to Rags: A fall
3. The Godfather (1972)
18A | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,559,178 | Gross: $134.97M
Man in Hole: A fall followed by a rise. also: the Dark Knight Rises, Gladiator, The Shawshank Redemption
4. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Votes: 743,401 | Gross: $3.64M
Icarus: A rise followed by a fall
5. Cinderella (1950)
G | 74 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Ilene Woods, James MacDonald, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Votes: 141,242 | Gross: $85.00M
Cinderella: A rise followed by a fall followed by a rise.
6. Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
14A | 101 min | Drama
Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan
Votes: 86,399 | Gross: $8.26M
Oedipus: A fall followed by a rise followed by a fall.
7. None of the Above (2015)
47 min | Drama
Three very different high school students run for class president. Each has their own motives and secrets.
Directors: Nick Kinder, Bryce Reif | Stars: Sam Adams, Ashley Courtney, Connor Livingston, Ari Meza
Votes: 8
None of the above.
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