Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant on Writing Movies for Fun and Profit

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Every Movie is Exactly the Same

More from Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, the team that wrote 'Writing Movies For Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can, Too!'

Here's a bit:

It's a dinosaur instead of a terrorist, but the structure is exactly the same. And at the end, Larry Daley of "Night at the Museum" punches Dick Van Dyke off of a stagecoach, instead of "Die Hard" John McClane punching Hans Gruber off of the building.

They're not similar. They're exactly the same. And if you pick "Casablanca" or the "Matrix" and turn to page 10, that's when he either gets the letters of transit from Peter Lorre. Or that's when he's: You must help me. You must help me, Rick.

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