tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.comments2024-03-06T05:14:12.866-05:00The Moral Premise Blog: Story Structure CraftUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger450125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-7296897318694384242024-03-02T17:10:05.974-05:002024-03-02T17:10:05.974-05:00My favorite Woody Allen movie ever, and one of my ...My favorite Woody Allen movie ever, and one of my favorite movies of all time, <i>Another Woman</i> from 1988, doesn' feature any overt religious or theological element but it's wonderfully insightful about morality; have you seen it?Matheusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-29049304601221914532024-02-13T03:39:30.786-05:002024-02-13T03:39:30.786-05:00Lindsay Lohan's psychological narrative likely...Lindsay Lohan's psychological narrative likely encompasses fame's pressures, addiction struggles, and self-discovery, offering insight into resilience and personal growth. <a href="https://stickneycounseling.com/" rel="nofollow">Stickney Counseling</a><br />Stickney Counselinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13000339717946815045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-19480748381815556662024-01-06T02:21:11.802-05:002024-01-06T02:21:11.802-05:00Beautiful review and analysis...Beautiful review and analysis...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-36064285809978240512023-05-24T11:12:38.896-05:002023-05-24T11:12:38.896-05:00I like the drama I like the drama Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-19797965020276355932022-05-29T10:26:23.727-05:002022-05-29T10:26:23.727-05:00Loved this review. It is spot onLoved this review. It is spot onAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-43425581434101472512022-04-29T05:42:27.547-05:002022-04-29T05:42:27.547-05:00Agreed that Charlotte is the Christ figure. That’s...Agreed that Charlotte is the Christ figure. That’s why I searched for this article, to confirm what I thought I noticed rereading the book as an adult. Also appreciate the author’s attention to other parallels with the Christ story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-88892663577208616522021-11-10T13:42:00.826-05:002021-11-10T13:42:00.826-05:00R.R.
We will watch Biutiful. Iñárritu is a great ...R.R. <br />We will watch Biutiful. Iñárritu is a great filmmaker. We don't mind the subtitles. Thanks for the recommendations. Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-29645384850939045972021-11-10T13:33:56.171-05:002021-11-10T13:33:56.171-05:00Hi, again Stan!
Yes, I read your post regarding B...Hi, again Stan! <br />Yes, I read your post regarding Babel's moral premise. That's how I met your blog. It was enjoyable! Also, yes, I meant that physics broke the way I used to see the world. <br />I truly recommend you to watch Biutiful, a movie that immerses you in death, life, hope, and the future. The less I say the better, Iñárritu made a great work. The only thing is that the movie is in Spanish, so you might need subtitles (keeping you from seeing some details...). One might see the movie as gritty and dark, but I do think that they are required to see the small shiny things from the movie. <br />Thank you for your recommendations, I'll keep an eye around here :). R.Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03690511850921752399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-22021980396074560712021-11-10T09:11:03.196-05:002021-11-10T09:11:03.196-05:00Thanks Yvonne. I'll be interested in your thou...Thanks Yvonne. I'll be interested in your thoughts after reading my blog and perhaps watching Babel again. (stan)Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-13498933143613663702021-11-10T09:01:53.749-05:002021-11-10T09:01:53.749-05:00Oh, I guess I should try to watch Babel again whic...Oh, I guess I should try to watch Babel again which on second view I had forgotten that I had watched before. Totally didn't get it at all. Suspect of wokeism turned me off at about half of it and the Japanese actress looking like a woman at late 30s playing a teenage girl is not helpful either. I stopped watching when she exposes herself to stranger young men. <br />I feel as if the movie ties to diminish true evil or cruelty and instead focusing on misunderstanding or lack of empathy as the real source of tragedy, which is not entirely untrue, but not profund enough.<br />But I am not at all sure if my perception is correct. I shall read your blog on the movie.JesuslovesYvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813111407408163450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-58345085365376386232021-11-10T06:04:18.705-05:002021-11-10T06:04:18.705-05:00R. R.
Thanks for the comment.
I have a longer b...R. R. <br /><br />Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />I have a longer blog specifically on Babel. https://moralpremise.blogspot.com/2007/02/babel.html<br />I have not seen Biutiful.<br /><br />I’m not sure if you have read that or not. I have an undergraduate degree in physics. I’m curious how you think physics shatters some of my perspective, or were you saying that it is shatters YOUR perspective? Yes, there are very difficult aspects of physics. I was an average student but loved the study of science from that perspective, worked in the space industry for a while because of it, and still read physics lay books yet today. But the higher math is beyond me.<br /><br />I am much better at philosophy, which was a minor of mine when I was majoring in physics. If you have read my book, The Moral Premise, the philosophy comes through there with lay terms fairly clearly. The other two topics that I would suggest you study in terms of philosophy is the Christian Bible, and Catholicism. Concepts of Natural Law, Evil, Righteousness, Condemnation, Redemption, Justification, and Propitiation are ubiquitous in successful story structure, Philosophy, Catholicism, and the human condition. <br />Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-85304344207145338022021-11-10T00:48:41.024-05:002021-11-10T00:48:41.024-05:00Really interesting list! I agree with some of them...Really interesting list! I agree with some of them since I still haven't watched much of the pre-2000s films. I've been rewatching some movies that were too dense by the age I had when I watched them. Babel was one of those, and I can truly see what there was. Your blog did have some interesting takes regarding the spine of the movie. <br />Also, I'm trying to read philosophy and learn by myself, and I'm just taking physics (which is truly kicking my ass), it truly breaks and scatters the initial perspective you have. Any recommendation regarding how to improve and learn better from philosophy. <br />Lastly, I'm quite impressed to not see the movie "Biutiful" from Iñárritu, after all, it has a strong narrative! <br /><br />Saludos! R.Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03690511850921752399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-36223424786897626782021-09-27T15:49:51.835-05:002021-09-27T15:49:51.835-05:00Thank you for going deeper into a wonderful movie....Thank you for going deeper into a wonderful movie. I had missed many of the analogies mentioned and this was a great reminder to watch it all again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-83856731689648803762021-09-01T04:20:08.968-05:002021-09-01T04:20:08.968-05:00There isn't a movie because there wasn't t...There isn't a movie because there wasn't the budget. Trailers before the movie are often produced as a proof of concept.Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-52718932264382112502021-09-01T02:42:32.021-05:002021-09-01T02:42:32.021-05:00Why isn't there a real movie? You got the char...Why isn't there a real movie? You got the characters down. But a trailer before a movie?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00450387066016472852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-57883619295620289332021-08-08T08:27:35.380-05:002021-08-08T08:27:35.380-05:00Yvonne, thanks for your thoughts and comment. Dr. ...Yvonne, thanks for your thoughts and comment. Dr. Zhivago is a tragedy. In it Pasternak, the author of the Nobel Prize winning book, paints a realistic commentary on Communist Marxism in the USSR at the time. The movie, as you might expect, lusciously illustrates (as only David Lean could manage) the richness of the book. Pasternak's says of his novels: "reality has been for me like a sudden, unexpected arrival that is intensely welcome. I have always tried to reproduce this sense of being sent, of being launched...as if reality itself had freedom of choice. Hence the reproach that my characters were insufficiently realized." <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(novel)].</i><br /><br />The long-form true moral premise statement for the movie might be stated like this:<br /><i>Gracious freedom leads to meaning, beauty, and life; but capricious conscription leads to poverty and death.</i> <br />Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-65307771507485609952021-08-07T20:34:56.490-05:002021-08-07T20:34:56.490-05:00Dr. Williams, thanks so much for your response. I ...Dr. Williams, thanks so much for your response. I didn't know these details about your career with the NASA. My admiration soars. Later today I am going to give the 2001 another much deserved shot.<br />In fact, I am going to watch every single one of these films prescribed here in the list that I haven't done already. I habe just finished Pride and Glory. A very good one. I can't agree with the general critique of the film as being bland. <br />By the way, I couldn't get the moral premisis of the Dr. Zhivago. Itry not to let my disgust of a unfaithful husband 's obsession with younger beauty skew my judgement but other than that, I don' t see much merit in the whole story. Without the morally worse communists, the so-called love of Dr. Zhivago would not very appetizing nor his fate very much worth pitying. JesuslovesYvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813111407408163450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-56015357178110392392021-08-01T03:52:42.053-05:002021-08-01T03:52:42.053-05:00While in the case of Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gobson had...While in the case of Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gobson had to tone down the achievement of the hero in order to avoid discredit by the viewers. He did have to sweeten up the romance and what a great job he did!JesuslovesYvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813111407408163450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-9184388179942224222021-07-31T19:26:46.873-05:002021-07-31T19:26:46.873-05:00Yvonne, You must tell me what about the first 10 m...Yvonne, You must tell me what about the first 10 minutes of 2001 turned you off. Too many monkeys killing other monkeys? I guess it's a very different kind of movie. It is Stanley Kubrick, of course, who was a very unconventional but talented filmmaker, who left his audiences to figure out myriad of narrative threads. I can tell you what fascinated me, but I'm an outlier on this. I was in college majoring in physics and philosophy. I loved both. I also wanted to be an astronaut. I really wasn't smart enough to be a member of NASA's select crew. But within a year of graduating college I was training astronauts on the use and malfunction diagnosis of electronic equipment on board our first space staton SKYLAB. Of course, when I was watching 2001 repeated my senior year I had not idea I'd be at NASA sooner than later. But that tells you of my mindset. I had also written a major paper senior year for an honors Philosophy Symposium class about humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial life. So, 2001 was totally my thing: Physics, Philosophy (Friedrich Nietzsche), and science fiction of which I had been a buff since junior hight. I still have a large hard-back library of Science Fiction Book of the Month Club volumes from high school (now collecting dust). So, I'm sure many people didn't get it and didn't want to get it. (LOL!) I'm just curious why. Blessings. StanStan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-71677618768742890422021-07-31T19:04:52.384-05:002021-07-31T19:04:52.384-05:00This makes me feel insecure about my discernment -...This makes me feel insecure about my discernment - I have tried so many times to watch 2001 and never been able to go beyond 10 minutes. Now I have to try yet again.....JesuslovesYvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813111407408163450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-16095251272062356972021-06-22T13:11:15.779-05:002021-06-22T13:11:15.779-05:00Stan,
Nice update on your INCEPTION post!
I was ...Stan,<br /><br />Nice update on your INCEPTION post!<br /><br />I was thinking about it and ... I view the [physical betterment] part of the Nested MPS, “inspiration that can transform our dreams into reality” as a better description of Cobb’s specific Outer Goal in the movie rather than a general, universal physical betterment related to his [psychological virtue]. Meaning, Cobb needs to overcome his vice with his virtue to realize a (general) physical betterment. That virtue-to-betterment transformation that Cobb undergoes could really manifest into a character achieving many diverse outer goals depending on the story. So, the [physical betterment] linked to Cobb's [virtue] could be "leads to self actualization / self realization", which then leads to his INCEPTION specific Outer Goal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-34558482225983007202021-06-08T18:56:58.367-05:002021-06-08T18:56:58.367-05:00The Mentor Aria and the Antagonist Aria can best b...The Mentor Aria and the Antagonist Aria can best be understood by first understanding that the Protagonist must choose to follow either the virtue or the the vice stated in the Moral Premise. Put it more generally: throughout the story the Protagonist transforms from some weakness or vice to either (a) some strength or virtue or (b) some greater weakness or vice. In an (a) story you usually have a redemptive ending. In a (b) story you usually have a tragic ending. In the second half of Act 1, after the inciting incident at the mid point of Act 1, we meet the demons and the angels that sit on the shoulders of the protagonist and whisper ideas into the protagonist's ears. The Mentor will recommend the protagonist take the virtuous path toward achieving the goal, while the Antagonist will recommend the protagonist take the vice path toward achieving the goal. The Mentor's Aria is the encouragement to take the high road, and the Antagonist Aria is the encouragement to take the low road. Now this is the simple understanding of the moral forces that weigh on the protagonist, for there are stories where the antagonist pushes the protagonist toward what is good. The TV Drama Touched by an Angel is such an example, the episode's guest star is the protagonist with a problem, and the angels (who are technically the story antagonists) encourage the guest star to solve it by embracing a more virtuous life. Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-79900396836016465512021-06-08T16:29:44.338-05:002021-06-08T16:29:44.338-05:00What is the "Antagonist Aria" (and "...What is the "Antagonist Aria" (and "Mentor Aria") from Michael Arndt's "Insane Endings"?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18175322662301288584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-81303594674045619672021-04-06T14:24:30.483-05:002021-04-06T14:24:30.483-05:00The suicide letter burning, I took it to mean that...The suicide letter burning, I took it to mean that Wilson viewed his father as weak. His father killed himself, Damon the son is like saying, that won’t happen to me. And forget that telling the truth stuff—-I’m all in for lies and deception. He’s cutting off his former belief in truth by burning the letter...my question: was the deaf girl reintroduced at the play by Mironov? Was she a Soviet agent? Who took the indiscreet photos of her and Wilson?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3841939281455717340.post-359504026818948642021-01-15T10:54:24.732-05:002021-01-15T10:54:24.732-05:00Venakat's link above takes you to what appears...Venakat's link above takes you to what appears to be a great site for Moral Tales with a description of how important stories are in the training up of children. Stan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084603289444240062noreply@blogger.com