If you’re a movie buff, these graphs are about to make storytelling much more interesting.
At least, I find it interesting, but only because I love movies, infographics, and Kurt Vonnegut.
In the early 1950s — before Vonnegut had a single novel published — he submitted his graduate thesis to the University of Chicago.
His idea was easy peasy: every story ever told can be mapped onto a graph.
The X-axis is time, the Y-axis is how good or bad things are going for the main character.
Plot the line, and you get the shape of the story.
The university rejected it.
Vonnegut spent the next 50 years talking about it anyway, and turns out, he was right.
Because once you see the shapes, you can’t unsee them.
Every movie you’ve ever loved, every book you’ve ever read, every show you’ve ever binged fits into one of these patterns.
So it goes.
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