경제학 이론과 시나리오 본질의 상관관계(相關關係)에 관한 연구-행동경제학과 게임이론을 중심으로 -

A study of correlation between economics’ theories and screen writing

“Human beings” are inherently imperfect. They seem to have reason, but many times, act unreasonably, and seem to seek rationality, yet act irrationally. Films deal with people as faltering human beings. People pictured in films often make unreasonable decisions and foolish challenges. This is what makes the human beings in films so appealing and tantalizing. Then, why don't they long for characters who are predictable, sensible, and resonable? Notwithstanding the society advancing with reasonable order and rational decisions, people are not much into film characters with such order and reason. For the last two hundred years, the established economic theories present images of human beings armed with reason and rationality who try to maximize their own interests. However, behavioral economics reject and resist this image of human beings. They believe that human actions and decisions are far from perfect. According to their theories, human beings act senselessly and make reckless choices and irrational decisions, putting up with the disadvantages they might get from them. The behavioral theory supports the images of film characters who make foolish choices and act irrationally. Films and economic theories that are seemingly unrelated have a common denominator in terms of ‘psychology of humans’. When screen writers come up with characters, organize plots based on those characters, and make those characters face dilemmas, they can write much more solid screenplay if it is based on the behavioral economics and its game theory. This study is an attempt to provide scientifically based accounts of film characters and irrationality of plots through interdisciplinary analysis of two different areas of economics and screenplay.