Polti’s 36 Dramatic Situations – Examples

Supplication Supplicant, persecutor, and powerful decision maker/authority whose decision is doubtful The Wizard of Oz (1939) Dorothy asks the Wizard of Oz for help in returning home to escape the Wicked Witch of the West. Deliverance Threatened, threatener, rescuer Spiderman (2002) Spiderman saves Mary Jane from the balcony collapse caused by Green Goblin Vengeance of […]

‘This is a pain of unreasonable proportions’

Wisdom Teeth – Don Hertzfeldt Wisdom Teeth, to me, feels like a love it or hate it kind of film. To put it briefly, the animation style is simplistic, the humour is dark, and the story is just downright bizarre. Personally, I love it. The simplistic art style of the short film is […]