Monday, March 26, 2018

Genres on Film vs TV

During Spring Break I watched the Spanish Netflix series, La casa de papel (Money Heist in English) and I was struck by how much the plot and narrative follows that of Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006). The plot is nearly identical except for the fact that the group of robbers goes into the National Mint instead of a private bank. Many of the same tropes of both heist/robbery movies are employed in the series, and by the middle of the season I questioned how much more of this I wanted to see. While thinking about genre this week, I found myself thinking about this series and whether or not movie genres are better or worse suited for television. Are there some genres that are better done in ~90 minutes? Or in ~13 episodes? Or does it just depend on the creators ability to avoid repetition of genre conventions and thus boredom from the audience?

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