33 Heroic Movie Tropes That Valiantly Dropkicked Through the Ceiling and Ruined This Fancy Ball
We brought storytelling tools to a storytelling knife fight
People often confuse tropes with cliches, but they’re really just tools for plots, characters and dialogue. It’s the over-usage of tropes that turn into some eye-rolling cliches. These are the moments that we can see the storyteller’s laziness, and sometimes, it’s just unforgivable.
Be better! Take the extra second to drum up a new trope — or at least your own original take on an old one. Here are some filmmakers who took that advice and used tropes the way they were meant to be used…