Similarity and Repetition – established patterns and satisfaction of formal expectations
- able to predict the next step in a series
- most basic levels: we recall and identification of characters and setting
- more subtly: we observe patterns in lines of dialogue, bits of music, camera positions, characters’ behavior, and story action
- motif – any significant repeated element in a film – a color, a place, a person, a sound, lighting or color pattern, character trait, or camera position
- parallelism – the process whereby a movie cues the spectator to compare two or more distinct elements by highlighting some similarity.