If you boil a performance down to a script, and then you boil it down further into some archetypes, tropes, and a timeline, then not much is original, but you'r

If you boil a performance down to a script, and then you boil it down further into some archetypes, tropes, and a timeline, then not much is original, but you're also boiling away everything that makes a film unique. Just because things like sound design, actor charisma, and historical context are hard to measure doesn't mean they don't all add up.