Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2022

The Problem-Solution Plot

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 Copyright 2022 by Gary L. Pullman In some horror movies, the plot is structured by attempting to solve a problem to no avail. Such plots ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Using Horror Movie Taglines to Develop Characters' Personality Traits (and Story Plots)

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman A movie poster tagline poses various questions related to WHO? (personal identity, agent, or agency),  W...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Evolution, Psychology, and Horror, Part I

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman   Source: kickstarter.com According to evolutionary psychologists, human behavior evolved through adaptat...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Vocational Horror: The Tools of Its Trade

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   A device often used to generate plots is to imagine a vocational role that, given a dark twist, produce...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Describing Images of Horror: Part 2

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   At the end of the initial post about this topic, I ended with this poster promoting the 1981 film Pos...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Talking Pictures: Plotting through Image Analysis and Imaginative Elaboration

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Characters, incidents, settings, processes, and motives are among the persons, places, and things t...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Benefits of Alternate Endings: Pick One

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman It was fashionable in Hollywood, at one time, to produce movies that have alternate endings . Holl...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Secret Motivations

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 Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Often, in horror stories and films, a secret, past or present, drives and directs protagonists'...