When you see a character in a movie that reminds you of another character from another movie, doesn’t it give you the feeling that all movies made today are exactly the same? I just do not understand how there can be 7 billion unique individuals in the world and yet there somehow has not yet been even a billion characters in films that are distinct in every possible way.
If a film has any element in it that I’ve seen before, this is another one of those “flaws” that I keep coming back to. Most often this takes the form of characters that in one way or another fall into a category that is inhabited by many other characters in film history. These include labels like “the everyman,” “the funnyman,” “the attractive woman,” “the mean woman,” “the large bad man,” and so on. It’s a complicated Venn diagram of tropes and stereotypes but virtually every single character in movie history falls into it, and that’s just further evidence that filmmakers are too lazy to come up with anything new anymore. I’m just going to sit here and wait for someone to come up with something original already.
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