American film critic Harlan Kennedy has written scathingly of 'the poverty of invention' in the film industry. He claims that Hollywood is driven by success at the Box Office and consequently the time is getting closer when "new stories will be a thing of the past: The packaging will change, a different star, a different locale, a different piece of music on the soundtrack - but for the rest each film will be essentially the same as all the others".
I watched Police Academy V on television last night and know what he means. No question about it the formula movie is here to stay. Like popular literature it has a part to play in common culture and it is precisely because of this that I would argue, even given the limitations of the Hollywo
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