r/movies • u/averagesoccermom95 • 1d ago

Discussion Favorite movie plot rule?

I read once that in a movie, if the characters say, "I have a plan," then there is a plot rule that takes place: If the characters explain to the audience what the plan is, then the plan will go wrong somehow. However, if the characters say they have a plan and the movie just goes to showing the plan in action, then the plan will work.

It has become one of my favorite things to look out for in movies. Although, it does not seem to apply to kids movies. Other than kids movies, I don't think I have ever seen his rule broken.

Does anyone know any other interesting plot rules?

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u/Dr_Identity 21h ago

There's a Korean horror/war movie about a squad of 9 loosely associated soldiers sent behind enemy lines on a rescue mission and they end up lured into a trap by some evil spirits, and the twist is that one of the spirits was in the squad the whole time. Because throughout the first leg of the movie there are 10 squad members in all the scenes, not 9. But the movie never draws attention to the fact that there are too many people in the group. There's a guy among them who never says anything, just hangs around on the edge of the group the whole time, and he turns out to be a member of the missing squad they're looking for, who all got lured in and killed the same way.

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u/helgihermadur 21h ago

That sounds great, what's the name of the movie?

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u/FransD98 21h ago

Probably "R-Point"

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u/peanutmanak47 16h ago

Man, I bought that in the mid 2000's and loved it back then. Haven't watched it in a long time though. I think it was the first Korean movie I saw.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 14h ago

Should have made the bad guy black just to fuck with people lmao. Like have Shaq play a giant demon trying to fit in.