A smarter person than I said that prestige music biopics are superhero movies for boomers, and it’s a fine point. Like the Marvel or DC franchises, they’re marketing a familiar brand to an enthusiastic audience, which eagerly laps up what is, in essence, the same movie countless times over, working from a tightly constructed and unwavering structure.
Superhero films give us the establishing iconography, the thrilling midpoint action beat, the plot twists and rising stakes, and the final, flavorless CGI-laden battle sequence.
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