Post on 28-Jul-2015
Julian Friedman
A presentation based on the talk by Julian Friedman-”The Mystery of Storytelling” in TED
Samuel Johnson
"Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
According to Julian Friedman story defines us not language
Common?
Language Language
But we have stories
Maurizio pollini
Beethoven’s preference for happy endings is not by any means a tendency towards kitsch, but rather a musical style akin to Schiller’s philosophy of struggle, suffering and overcoming.”
Struggle, suffering and overcoming – pity, fear, catharsis – beginning, middle and end.
American movies are earning better than European movies in the box-office because…
“Big Budget”
“Popular”
Recap
1.Agents- What we do?, What we want? And What are we?
2.The story is much more about the audience than it is about the characters or the plot. And it is much more about the audience than it is about the storyteller.
3.Your primary relationship has got to be with your audience, not with your characters.
4.Stories define us, not language.5.The three act structure is actually a function of how
the human brain works.6.Entertain us.
Created by Bhaskar Bora, NIT Silchar, during an internship by Prof. Sameer
Mathur, IIM Lucknow.www.IIMInternship.com
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