Bowling scenes tend to pop up in films that fizzle, Mr. Bruzzese, 39, continued. Therefore it is statistically unwise to include one in your script. “A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who acts as a protector, he added.
In hopes of producing more financially successful movies, studios can now hire Vinny Bruzzese, a former statistics professor, to analyze their scripts from a mathematical perspective.
Is the statistical approach “a pell-mell rush for the middle of the road,” or does it produce “the best notes on a draft” a writer could hope for? The New York Times tries to puzzle it out.
