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The plot doesn't work
Mossie 2022-03-21 09:02:52
When the protagonist is running around giving speeches, it can still make people excited, but other places are more shabby. The plot is too rigid and can't be hardened again. For example, the protagonist was so innocent a second before that he was dedicated to serving the people as a grassroots candidate. Suddenly, he became enlightened and turned into a populist politician who played the rabble around, and the change was too abrupt. Although this kind of blockbuster is full of stars, it has no special skills to sell. Apart from selling face, it must sell some plot.
Extended Reading
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Jack Burden: To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there would be some advantage in finding it. I found something a long time ago, and have held on to it for grim death ever since. I owe my success in life to it; it put me where I am today. This principle: what you don't know, won't hurt you. They called it idealism in a book I read.
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Jack Burden: [to Anne, explaining what happened to his marriage] A lot of tangled bedclothes and unspoken loathing, then spoken loathing and no tangled bedclothes.