# Black Panther Analysis **URL:** \ **Category:** Analysis and Review\ **Created:** [February 17, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/black-panther-analysis/1477 "2018-02-17T01:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 82
**Author:** ![decastell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/decastell/32/1474_2.png) [@decastell](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/decastell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/black-panther-analysis/1477/82 "2018-04-04T18:24:04Z")
> [@jhull](#): > > If you can assess the domains of a movie without watching it then I’m not sure what point there is to a Dramatica analysis. > > Or it could be that I do Dramatica analysis for a living, built an app from the ground up that does the same thing and is one short of 400 separate analyses – 50 of which I completed on my own, and have written hundreds and hundreds of articles and analyses and blog posts for the past 12 years all centered on the Dramatica theory of story. I’m not disputing your expertise at all. In fact, I’m not even disputing whether your assessment is correct. My point is that if the underlying structure of a movie or book can be determined without watching it, then I don’t see the value in the framework used to derive that analysis. > [@jhull](#): > > Since I don’t think there’s ever a single storyform that exclusively and conclusively defines a movie, > > You know I love you–but the only people who say this are people who can’t get enough objectivity from the experience of a story to tell the true nature of conflict from a Dramatica point-of-view. They think a Dramatica storyform is subjective interpretation. It’s not. The love is, of course, mutual. And you may be entirely correct – that I can’t attain the objectivity from the experience of the story to tell the true nature of conflict from Dramatica’s point of view. Here’s the thing, though: As a writer, I can’t find utility in that analysis. I was reading your analysis of Raiders of the Lost Arc yesterday, and I’m not going to dispute its accuracy from a Dramatica standpoint, but I’ll bet you can guess the two places where – whether correct or not – it deviates so far from what a person takes away from that movie that I can’t see how it’s useful. > [@jhull](#): > > Saying the Domains are an “unnecessarily complicated way to refer to a genre” is like saying that Main Character Resolve and Main Character Growth are unnecessarily complicated ways to refer to character arc. Many would agree with you–but such is Dramatica. Totally agree. > [@jhull](#): > > We debate for greater understanding. And because it’s fun to see the narrative code of story. Also agree with this. That’s why I think it’s kind of secondary to me whether there’s “one true storyform” or not. I’ve never been able to get much use out of those analyses of films in my own work directly, but seeing the ways in which they don’t make sense with my experience of the story – that disconnect – is helpful in sparking ideas for new scenes and new stories and new perspectives. Which is what I like about Dramatica – and you! --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/black-panther-analysis/1477)._