Have you ever seen a movie about sports? Usually a ragtag group of misfits team up to defeat a seemingly more powerful group. Besides for the formulaic plots there is another thing that unites all movies about sports: The Montage.
Whenever the sports team learns that they need to train harder it is shown in a montage. When the sports team starts to rack up wins against no-name teams, this too is shown in montage. In fact, most sports movies could be considered as just a series of montages.
Sure it seems like Hollywood has run out of ideas. Before you go demanding your money back from harried theater managers, it seems that science has validated the montage.
Our brains record good and bad memories differently.
Bad memories are recorded more vividly. Let's say for the sake of example that you are walking down the street and get attacked by a dog. The dog pounces on you and knocks you to the ground. The hound bites your arm, but scampers off when a truck backfires.
When you remember this memory later in life, you will remember this dog well, the way it smelled, what it felt like when it bit you and how scared you were. You may even develop some sort of phobia to dogs.
On the other hand, if you are on a sports team and you keep winning games, your mind will recall a sort of general sense of well being, but it will not recall things with clear focus, much like a montage.
Researchers believe that this is an evolutionary trait. Imagine that there are two cavemen. The first caveman is named Blork, and the second caveman is named Scrob. Blork's primitive mind records bad memories better, but Scrob's prehistoric brain records good memories better.
These two cavemen live in an area with a lot of tigers. You could say that these cave-gentlemen are beleaguered by tigers. At least once a week, these guys have to fend off tigers. Also, once a week, they get to eat fresh fruit.
On the day the fresh fruit is pickable, Scrob and Blork set off to feast. But, man, there are so many tigers in the way.
Blork's mind thinks, "Boy, I sure hate those tigers. I remember vividly being bit. I remember how bad it hurt and how awful tiger's breath smells. I'm going to not eat fruit today." Blork goes home and eats a snake or something else that is really awful.
Yet Scrob thinks, "Man, I love fruit. I vividly remember eating fruit. I love the way the juice bursts out as I bite into it. The smell of a fresh peach makes me sweat out of my sloping caveman brow." So Scrob goes to get some fruit, but gets eaten by tigers. That is how natural selection works.
Sure, If I'd care to do research, I'd probably find that the fear and memory center of the brain was probably developed in lesser vertebrae and not cavemen brains, but a really long parable about two lizards trying to avoid a bigger lizard would have been really boring in and as comparison.
So, in conclusion, the montage has a scientific basis.
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