This is a very interesting concept. I see in your replies to other comments that you are looking at movies from different cultures, which would be a great test of your idea. Once you have sufficiently advanced, it would be great to look at theatre too. I have a hypothesis that movie-writing began to diverge from theatre-writing in the very late 20th century in terms of structure and writing with the rise of the blockbuster and the emphasis on spectacle, and we lost something after that.

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phaedrus044 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn't the format by itself implicitly change the structure of the content? I know some friends who are in theatre, and even when they do 4 shows a week, there are variations that they make constantly that no two shows are the same.

My musician friends who are scholars in indian music tell me that there is a difference between a written raaga and a performed raaga and in a performed raaga, the actor has the right to improvize on that.

Im trying very hard to not go into the rabbit hole which might become purely academic :) But i would think that if we take how youtube content is structured, or tiktoks are, each format would lend to a new structure.

Thats my sense, i could be wrong. What do you think?

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hnhg 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess I am talking about analysing the written works more than the final acted piece (e.g. a book of Sam Shepard plays vs their performance). That would be good enough, I think.

I totally get why you would want to avoid the rabbit hole but your work is super interesting and I hope that you do get the luxury of being able to dive into adjacent formats and comparing them.

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phaedrus044 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I dont want to say anything and get into trouble like Chalamet :)

But yes, I do believe that if AI is going to get so good at things that we are all going to have free time, we are going to have more time for entertainment. It is either going to be the arena or protests - and theatre might reclaim its glory days.

Ive been watching some of the shows by the National Theatre via streaming and do enjoy them.

Adjacency wise, a few startups have asked if they can use this framework to finetune their storytelling. Im still thinking.

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hnhg 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Another view is that theatre is local, low-infrastructure storytelling. It's been so important to us as a species, we don't want to forget it in preference of only following storytelling distributed by corporations.

	▲	phaedrus044 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have a point there. I'll talk to some folks around it and see how this can be useful to them - if at all.