Looking at a story through a graph

I love movies and I see movies partly for English practice and partly for pleasure. Everyone has their own favorite tastes of movie. My favorite types of movies are ones that have a story that is related to science or complicated stories including mysteries. So, I tend to give a good evaluation to a movie that contains my favorite elements unconsciously. I don't know how winners of the Academy Award are chosen but I think it is a very difficult job for people with the right to vote.

I was wondering what are the elements of the movie that most people think are good. I think the basis of the movie is the most important, it's a story. So, I tried to analyze stories but I'm not a specialist, I don't know how to analyze stories. I contemplated it and what I have done was draw a polygonal line graph.

I draw a dot on the zero line first, then if something bad has happened in a story, I draw a dot under the zero line. For example, the childhood age of a main character of batman was on zero point in the beginning, then his parents got killed, so I drew a dot at the point of minus ten, like that.

It is obvious that any story has its ups and downs. I just wanted to know if there are some constant tendencies of a story that has got a good rating. But the points I draw are based on my subject so it's not the same as the world in general, so maybe this is not a good method.

I guess that there are people who think that art cannot be analyzed by figures but I thought that using a polygonal line graph could roughly show some tendencies and characteristics of a story that can attract people.

For instance, a happy ending story has lots of dots in minus just before the story ends. If there are not dots in minus before the end, people don't feel much like it's a happy ending story. The same as you feel like a nice taste of coffee after you ate very sweet cake, to feel happiness, some unhappy situation helps make you feel happier. Backing from the brink of defeat is one of the most exciting situations of stories.

Let me think of one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption.
In that story, the main character Andy was arrested on a false charge of murder and sent to jail. From the beginning, Andy's situation is shown as minus on a polygonal line graph and sometimes something good has happened in the story, but he still has been in jail, so the dots don't have a chance to go up the line of zero. Before I got the idea of drawing a graph, I thought the story that attracts people's mind has up and down dots and describes a graph such as the blade of the saw, but it does not seem to have possibilities to be so. People are attracted by the story even if a gloomy talk continues.

How about an utter happy story? I cannot remember a story that is happy from the beginning to the end. Are there any stories that are all happy? I wondered why there are no (maybe there are some?) stories that are utter happy stories or movies, can't they attract people? I have heard the phrase "Other people's misfortunes have a taste of honey", but I don't think people select a book or see a movie for the reason of this state of mind. Do people want to learn something from someone's bad situation? Probably not.

I wondered if a story that has no ups and downs on the graph can attract people? Is there any story that has no ups and downs? No ups and downs means nothing has happened and it might be boring.

Probably, studying psychology would be a little help to understand this. However, I haven't heard that a psychologist becomes a better novelist. There may be someone who is a psychologist and also a writer, but when I think about it from probability, it's not so many. Isn't it difficult to analyze what a good story and movie are?

Thank you for reading my messy blog that has no ups and downs in the writing.