My son, who is a very knowledgeable cinephile, was just telling me yesterday, that he suspects that basic plots in productions like TV detective dramas, are being puked out by AI, then punched up by humans in the writing room, and then fed back through AI for polishing.
That’s why so many shows have such similar plots and structures.
Nah, there was a Book a few years back with a general formula to make successfull movies. It was in fact so successfull that everyone uses this formula now and Movies have become dull because everything is the same.
Yeah, the Save The Cat nonsense has almost ruined movies. I recognize it every time we get to the “All Hope Is Lost” beat, about 90% of the way through. Then the hero figures out some implausible escape, the bad guys get sorted out, and there’s a happy ending. Every time.
We’ve been dealing with that for a while, but AI is taking a bad situation and only making it even blander. And it’s not just AI, it’s Netflix’s entire way of doing business.
The other thing that my son points out is how often a Netflix series could have been a really good, tight 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants engagement, so they demand that the good movie be stretched into numerous chapters with cliffhangers. So we get subjected to all sorts of dumb twists and turns that pop up out of nowhere, and really don’t have anything to do with the real plot.
My son, who is a very knowledgeable cinephile, was just telling me yesterday, that he suspects that basic plots in productions like TV detective dramas, are being puked out by AI, then punched up by humans in the writing room, and then fed back through AI for polishing.
That’s why so many shows have such similar plots and structures.
Nah, there was a Book a few years back with a general formula to make successfull movies. It was in fact so successfull that everyone uses this formula now and Movies have become dull because everything is the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You'll_Ever_Need
https://m.slashdot.org/story/189173
Yeah, the Save The Cat nonsense has almost ruined movies. I recognize it every time we get to the “All Hope Is Lost” beat, about 90% of the way through. Then the hero figures out some implausible escape, the bad guys get sorted out, and there’s a happy ending. Every time.
We’ve been dealing with that for a while, but AI is taking a bad situation and only making it even blander. And it’s not just AI, it’s Netflix’s entire way of doing business.
The other thing that my son points out is how often a Netflix series could have been a really good, tight 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants engagement, so they demand that the good movie be stretched into numerous chapters with cliffhangers. So we get subjected to all sorts of dumb twists and turns that pop up out of nowhere, and really don’t have anything to do with the real plot.