wildfire393 t1_ja11b8a wrote
It doesn't make sense to explain an entire plan and then execute it exactly the way it was explained. That's just poor storytelling. There's a lot of redundancy and no real tension.
If the plan is going to fail, it makes sense to spell it out beforehand, as you can then see more clearly where the breakdown of the plan happens and what goes wrong, without having to take you out of the action to elaborate.
If the plan is going to succeed, the tension comes from trying to figure out how they're going to beat the impossible odds. If everything goes according to plan as they laid it out, that tension is lost. So either you'll get the dialogue of explaining the plan playing over it actually happening, to preserve some mystery, or there will be a surprise reveal that goes counter what it seemed like the plan was supposed to be.
These are obviously tropes, but they're tropes for a reason.
foxxytroxxy t1_ja1cf00 wrote
I can think of a lot of films that pretty much do the opposite of the shower thought. One example is The Interview, where for comedic tension James Franco's plan to shoot the helicopter down is pretty much what happens.
Pretty sure a lot of successful heist and action films also work as counter examples
TheGrumpyre t1_ja1u5y7 wrote
I can't think of any, but I'm curious to see one now. Just some extremely skilled people pulling off the heist exactly as planned with no big twist surprises. There's something satisfying about watching people in their element being super competent at what they do.
foxxytroxxy t1_ja22d2z wrote
Okay so it's never exactly as planned to the T. So maybe I was a bit hyperbolic. But I can think of a few where I seem to remember that there was no huge twist or anything.
Karibik_Mike t1_ja17m59 wrote
Obviously. But they are also bad writing, because they destroy any tension by spoiling the plot.
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