# Computer to Pick Hollywood Movies for Development

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**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-to-pick-hollywood-movies-for-development/335789 "2005-12-15T19:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-to-pick-hollywood-movies-for-development/335789/1 "2005-12-15T19:58:09Z")

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[I wonder if it’ll give movies a “2 USB Plugs up!”?](http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18825305.100)

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> The idea comes from Ramesh Sharda, an information scientist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, who has trained an artificial neural network to recognise what makes a successful movie (Expert Systems with Applications, vol 30, p 243).

And those of us who’ve been bitching about how the movies have been ditching good writing in favor of CGI will find this part comforting. :rolleyes:

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> The system cannot take into account the intricacies of the plot

How far off can Orwell’s “proletarian novel writing machines” be?

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**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-to-pick-hollywood-movies-for-development/335789/2 "2005-12-15T20:05:44Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> How far off can Orwell’s “proletarian novel writing machines” be?

Actually, I recently read a novel by model ADR-1025 “Dan Brown”.

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-to-pick-hollywood-movies-for-development/335789/3 "2005-12-15T20:20:24Z")

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Is the name of the computer “Awesom-O”?

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-to-pick-hollywood-movies-for-development/335789/4 "2005-12-15T21:41:12Z")

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Hmm, if it can’t follow the plot, it should do no better and no worse than your average movie producer nowadays!

Garbage in, garbage out, human or machine.