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Movie tropes are slippery.
They slide into a plot, squeezing just beneath your awareness to grease a narrative. Cinematic lubricant, tropes move the story forward such that you barely notice the conceit of all it.
I was reflecting on movie tropes after watching Hustle, a straight-to-Netflix flick starring Adam Sandler as a woebegone talent scout for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The film revolves around the Sandler character’s discovery of Bo Cruz, a talented Spanish basketball player played by Juancho Hernangómez, and the effort to get Cruz into the NBA.
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