Are movies becoming more simplistic?
By
Stephen Follows
2mo ago· 12 min readNews
I tracked the dialogue patterns in 64,332 films, measuring lexical diversity, sentence length, filler words, and fragmented speech to see whether movie scripts are becoming structurally simpler.
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