Trending today: a study that takes a deep dive into how often the main character dies in a movie: about 15 percent of the time overall, as it turns out. (But less frequently these days than, say, the 1970s, when directors were going all in on pessimistic grittiness.) Victor and Aaron take their own deep dive into the study – including a sidebar debate about who counts as the ‘main’ character in a movie in the first place.
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