Loving to Script

I watched another Hollywood movie last night that left me rather deflated. It was billed as comedy, a treatise on corporate America, but it turned out to be another jaded story of love enduring through all adversaries. This does not happen in real life. Falling in love is easy, it is being in love for ever that is the challenge.

Why do all movies seem to follow this storyline? It's as if there is a prescribed script which must be adhered to. On her blog, Chloe Thurlow raises this same point. She argues that there is a Hollywood formula:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

If she's right, it poses a challenge to writers who dare to have a different view. Not that we all aspire to selling the rights of our books to Hollywood (do we?), but the challenge is that the wider book market expects this type of storyline. Hemingway was so last century.

I wrote a book where love failed to conquer. The sequel looked as if it would redress the balance, the hero eventually finding stable love. But life is stranger than fiction and love did not endure a second time for my hero. Perhaps it was because the hero wanted stability. Perhaps he should have challenged his wife more, offered her more adventure, a good spanking: something else that Chloe suggests.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Trouble-W...