How can you make a blockbuster movie? Here’s how Artificial Intelligence can help

A team of scientists from the Spanish universities of Granada (UGR) and Cádiz (UCA) has designed the first computer system to help screenwriters write movie scripts that will do better at the box office, a model that makes use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyze the most successful clichés or tropes.

To do so, they’ve relied on tropes, which are the narrative resources and conventions that allow movie directors to communicate a situation that can be easily recognized by the viewer, a kind of cliché that is common, predictable, and even necessary to tell a story.

Tropes are ideas that are repeated in different movies or series, and that’s why it’s often said that almost every storyline has already appeared on “The Simpsons”, the animated television series to which the study refers.

Its creators, Pablo García-Sánchez and Juan Julián Melero, from the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at UGR, and Antonio Vélez and Manuel Jesús Cobo, from the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Cádiz, have utilized this series and others as an example of how these clichés work.

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