On: I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...

[steauengeglase]

Better question. Can you remember the plot of the last 5 movies you went to see?

[rjd → steauengeglase]

Yep, I believe the majority of films I have ever watched has this plot:

The protagonist is put into a situation where he is drawn from a position of security and is force to embark on a journey to resolve the situation.

The journey exposes the protagonist to a foreign environment and they must learn how to deal with the new situation. Often given tools to master their destiny.

After some time the new situation goes bad to due to the protagonist failing to understand the exact nature of the new environment, mistakes are made and the protagonist is put at some level of emotional or physical danger.

Some miraculous event occurs which breaks the protagonist out spiralling chaos.

Turns out people don't like stories that which fail to follow that pattern :)

[watmough → rjd]

In romantic comedies...

  - Lonely woman meets strange man,
  - Man drags woman around,
  - Woman is *mildly inconvenienced*, this is key, causes conflict,
  - Situation is somehow happily resolved.

Not sure about everyone else, but I am sick of movies where the likes of Jennifer Aniston spend too hours boggling at mild inconvenience.

Gahhh. No wonder I haven't set foot in a movie theater for years.

[rjd → watmough]

Its generalised quite well with this theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

[joezydeco → watmough]

Go listen to track 6 of the new Patton Oswalt album...

[pbhjpbhj → joezydeco]

Because? Also, you could actually name the track. Even better give a link for us to listen to it?

It might be awesome but you're not on reddit now; downzoat.

[joezydeco → pbhjpbhj]

Um, because I thought posting the link to the pirated YouTube track would be a bit more tacky. But whatever.

[pbhjpbhj → joezydeco]

There are plenty of ways to link to music, Amazon previews, bands website, official/certified vid on YouTube, etc., that don't involved copyright infringement.

Basically I'm still at a loss as to what you felt you were adding to the conversation?

[neilparikh → rjd]

This basically fits the idea of the hero's journey[0], an idea by Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell believes that many myths follow this hero's journey through 3 phases: departure, initiation and return. It's startling how many myths fit this almost perfectly.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth