Researchers at the University of Birmingham have categorised the movies according to six emotional profiles or clusters, which were previously applied to novels.<\/p>\n
These are: rags to riches \u2013 an ongoing emotional rise as seen in films such as “The Shawshank Redemption”<\/em>; riches to rags \u2013 an ongoing emotional fall (“Psycho”<\/em>); man in a hole \u2013 a fall followed by a rise (“The Godfather”)<\/em>; Icarus \u2013 a rise followed by a fall (“On the Waterfront<\/em>“); Cinderella \u2013 a rise followed by a fall followed by a rise (“Babe”<\/em>); and Oedipus, a fall followed by a rise followed by a fall (“All About My Mother”<\/em>).<\/p>\n Apparently, the analysis showed that man in a hole movies with their happy-sad-happy trajectory were the most financially successful movies across all genres, costing an average of $40.5m to produce and earning an average of $54.9m.<\/p>\n You can learn more about this research here<\/a> and, if you’re interested in seeing good movies, check out my film reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Researchers at the University of Birmingham have categorised the movies according to six emotional profiles or clusters, which were previously applied to novels. These are: rags to riches \u2013 an ongoing emotional rise as seen in films such as “The Shawshank Redemption”; riches to rags \u2013 an ongoing emotional fall (“Psycho”); man in a hole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23312"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23324,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions\/23324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}