http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/subgoals Questions tagged with 'subgoals' at Ask MetaFilter. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:18:20 -0800 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:18:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/89356/When%2Ddo%2Da%2Dbunch%2Dof%2Dcharacters%2Dsolve%2Da%2Dproblem%2Din%2Done%2Dlong%2Dconversation I'm looking for dialog-heavy scenes (in books, movies, TV shows, etc) where a group of people solve a problem or make a plan in the course of one long conversation. The "one long conversation" criterion is what makes this hard. Most police procedurals, for instance, don't work because the problem-solving is spread out across many short conversations in the course of an episode. The planning in heist movies tends to be the same way — split up, or scattered through some sort of "preparation" montage. I want examples where you get to watch the whole problem-solving process from beginning to end, with one set of participants, no jumps forward or backward in time, and no interruptions.<br> <br> Bonus points, too, if the problem involves subgoals (<i>e.g.</i> "To get the money we'll need to break into the building, get past the guards, and open the safe. Now let's think about how to break into the building....")<br> <br> <small>Lest this sound too chatfiltery, there is a practical problem here: I'm doing research on the linguistic structure of conversations, and I'd like some well-known examples of this kind of conversation that I can point to as examples.</small> tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.89356 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:18:20 -0800 conversation dialog dialogue problemsolving subgoals nebulawindphone