Uncomfortable plot summaries

[firecat]

(via jae)

My favorite (because I always thought so): GROUNDHOG DAY: Misanthropic creep exploits space/time anomaly to stalk coworker

The OH tells about a friend who was able to sum up any story in a sentence. He was challenged to sum up Dune and he said "Two gangs fight it out over the drug trade." There are a couple of other plot summaries of Dune in the comments to that post.

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[bcholmes]

I've been thinking, for the last few days, of figuring out a wry description of Mao's Last Dancer: something about how a revolutionary Chinese dancer is seduced by homo capitalists and honey traps to defect to the United States, where his art becomes emptied of political meaning, and exists solely to be beautiful. That's not pithy like the ones you linked to, but it is, actually, what was going through my head as I was watching it.