Self-study
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"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why do people enjoy seeing so many movies when most have recycled plots?
Objective
The correct answer will offer an unsatisfactory hypothesis, one that fails to explain why people enjoy seeing movies with unoriginal plots. Every wrong answer, meanwhile, will give a reason for people to enjoy these movies anyway.
17.
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a
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This is a consequence of those movies’ popularity, not a reason for it. It does not explain why people choose to see them.
b
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This explains why people will see multiple movies with similar plots. If they do not notice that a film's plot is unoriginal, they will not be turned off by that unoriginality.
c
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This explains why people see new movies each year. Although most movies use recycled plots, the particular movies a given person sees are unlikely to share plots very often.
d
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This explains why people will see multiple movies every year. They see an unoriginal plot as a positive, one that makes a movie more enjoyable.
e
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This explains why people continue to watch movies even though their plots are largely recycled. Because the movies first using those plots are so old, few viewers have seen them, so the plots are largely novel to the people watching.