Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened

Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by nottorp on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:56AM (#17998483)

Looks like people are taking offense to me saying that all hollywood movies are the same. If you can watch the same superhero movie 30 times (with different skins and superhero names), power to you. I can't any more.

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by andrewflnr on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:50AM (#17999201)

Maybe you just don't like superhero movies. There are, in fact, other movies that have been made.

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by stephengillie on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:27AM (#17998591)

Books are someone's fanfic that someone else liked enough to publish. Scripts are similar.

Most stories are written around the same small groups:

- Single protagonist

- Duo or buddies

- 3 person team (heavy hitter, smart/tech/engineer, leader)

- 5 person team (usually a 3 person team core with 2 additional members)

It's like "madlibbing" a story - using characters named "heavy", "tech", "leader", any IP can slot in their characters. For these, Teal'c/Carter/O'Neill or Raphael/Donatello/Leonardo or Hulk/Stark/Rogers.

Some plots will naturally be more widely adaptable to multiple IPs than others. Any hero can be used to tell a sufficiently generic story, but not all heroes work in all stories. Imagine doing Man of Steel in the MCU, or Infinity War in the DCEU.

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by FabHK on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:32AM (#17998831)

You are complaining that movies are all similar, insofar as they tend to focus on 1, 2, 3 or 5 people?

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by dwighttk on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:55AM (#17999502)

you'd think they could make a fantastic 4 movie that was good then... if only for the novelty...

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by DonHopkins on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:39AM (#17998864)

That explains why they never made the "Two and a Half Men" movie!

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by stephengillie on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:17AM (#17999039)

Please do not give these bad ideas to Hollywood executives, or we might suffer such a production.

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Re:Apple didn't delete that guy's movies – what really happened by stephengillie on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:05AM (#17998985)

This is supposed to be a bland analysis. Please, try to be more objective.

These roles are well-defined in modern literature, and it logically follows that a market must exist, to buy and sell stories and IPs. This allows a video production company to license plots and characters, combine them (insert hero A into slot Tech), and sell edited videos of the production.

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