In response to past posts about stereotypes and clichés, I got out my 1999
paperback copy of Roger Ebert's book Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary.
Which is a self proclaimed Greatly Expanded and Much Improved Compendium of
Movie Clichés, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas, Shopworn
Conventions and Outdated Archetypes.

For example the so called Orwell that Ends Wells Rule.
The inability of Hollywood to look into the future and see anything except 
cataclysmic wars, mass nuclear destruction, oppressive automations, and 
ruthless police states.




 *curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32