Are Storytellers Conflict Resolution Experts?

Even though yesterday's blog ended in an inspiring video by Nike, it was a depressing thought to end the blog by highlighting the pervasive and vital role of conflict in storytelling.

Some of us might ask, "Can't we move past conflict." Which I think is implicit in the Nike ad. And yes, that's the vital point of story - how we resolve the conflict. How we resolve the conflict is the substance of the story - you might call it the cause that's imbedded in story. How we move past our conflict with our environment, our neighbors, and our own internal conflicts.

Are any of you tired of the simple revenge and retaliate motif favored by some action stories?  Here's a NEW classic in this genre...in case you've missed it...;-)

The most obvious Hollywood action motif is for a huge injustice to be perpetrated on some unsuspecting innocent (or recently innocent) individual or family (now add community or society) - then for the remainder of the film the main character(s) (some of which have renounced warfare) are compelled into seeking revenge and retaliation - to annihilate the foe.

I've notice that we're combining the disaster film motif with the revenge motif. I think Resident Evil adds Zombe's to this motif.

Isn't this the time to be exploring new stories? I see new motif's emerging - the Disney movie Brave comes to mind?

Is this exploration of forms of conflict resolution the very DNA of story? Does this remind you of any stories or movies?

Would it be fair to say that there are Old Story motifs and New Story Motifs?
Could you also call this the Old Story Hero (or Leader) or the New Story Hero (Leader)
could you also put these styles in conflict: Old Story vs. New Story? etc.

Maybe this is a good time to introduce Story Wars a book by Jonah Sacks. Here Jonah reveals a clear conflict (War) that we should care about - between stories (advertising) that create inadequacy / dependency, and stories (ads) that empower us.

This ad for his book I'll likely return to later but - Jonah defines the conflict and the old and new stories and also how to Win (resolve) the Story Wars.

Do storytellers define the conflict and then act as a kind of "conflict resolution" expert?

Do the kind of stories that I'm drawn to resolve conflicts in a most compelling and creative way? 

I'm going to dwell on this... its a good time to end this blog for today.