Just realized my two favorite movies/stories are identical in all but relatively superficial ways:
1. Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971 movie furshur)
2. Ready Player One
Discussion
The moral of each is basically: be honest, good, and determined -> reward
The story of each is basically: someone honest, good, and determined is rewarding you their work for being similar
What if I told you every movie in Hollywood follows the same boring old predictable script. Literally reusing the same format for everything because that’s what sells.
I wouldn’t call them boring. I enjoy movies! But they do mostly have the same structure. I don’t blame movie makers as much as I blame our brains for this though. We like that structure.
Story by Robert McKee describes this structure really well