Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
5 人推荐 · 跨 5 个月 · 2012–2022
中文导读
著名作家 Kurt Vonnegut 的短讲座。他在黑板上用坐标轴画出了故事的情感起伏曲线，将“人掉进坑里”、“男孩遇上女孩”等经典叙事结构抽象成极其直观的几何形状。
为什么 HN 推它
HN 网友津津乐道的一期短片，用幽默风趣的方式揭示了剧作核心逻辑，也是“故事是有形状的”这一著名观点的出处。
「Vonnegut 真的太有魅力了，我总会回看他讲故事形状的那些演讲。」HN 网友原话：Vonnegut is really special. I always like coming back to his Shape of Stories talks
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
A short lecture in which Kurt Vonnegut graphs the simple shapes of stories, such as Man in Hole and Boy Gets Girl. He sketches how fortune rises and falls over a narrative.
HN cites it as a charming, funny way to see story structure and a source for the idea that plots have shapes.
HN 上的提及
see this Kurt Vonnegut video where he explains story shapes
It reminds me of this great video of Vonnegut graphing the emotional shape of stories.
I really love this video of his, on the shape of a story
the talk is funny though, i saw him give a much longer version.
Cited as source for stories having shapes