# Which failure modes do Esenwein and Leeds name for old situations (stale themes, the obvious development or ending, slight disguise, coincidence), and what does the text not cover?

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1919 practice, ch. XIV and XIX (with ch. XVI s.7 as adjacent): the named failures are (1) a theme already done in the last year or two, which the authors say is the commonest reason good scripts come back; (2) a hackneyed theme (a list of 23 in ch. XVI; the diamond-in-the-glass reunion plot is said to be spent after a 1911 film, a magazine story and a 1913 film); (3) slight disguise without a new twist; and (4) the obvious development, the "easiest way", whose outcome a reader can predict (a quoted reviewer: "we know ... just how the plot will work out"). They say a hackneyed look comes more from threadbare development than from the theme, and a surprise at the climax may redeem it. Coincidence is not treated in either chapter; see C3-B163-S34-01 to -07.

1919 practice, ch. XIV and XIX (with ch. XVI s.7 as adjacent): the named failures are (1) a theme already done in the last year or two, which the authors say is the commonest reason good scripts come back; (2) a hackneyed theme (a list of 23 in ch. XVI; the diamond-in-the-glass reunion plot is said to be spent after a 1911 film, a magazine story and a 1913 film); (3) slight disguise without a new twist; and (4) the obvious development, the "easiest way", whose outcome a reader can predict (a quoted reviewer: "we know ... just how the plot will work out"). They say a hackneyed look comes more from threadbare development than from the theme, and a surprise at the climax may redeem it. Coincidence is not treated in either chapter; see C3-B163-S34-01 to -07.

Curator qualifications: Figure is the authors' unsupported 1919 statement; coincidence absent from both chapters (curator count 0).

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17903/pg17903.txt",
      "note": "ch. XIV lines 7376-7377"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] 1919 practice, ch. XIV and XIX (with ch. XVI s.7 as adjacent): the named failures are (1) a theme already done in the last year or two, which the authors say is the commonest reason good scripts come back; (2) a hackneyed theme (a list of 23 in ch. XVI; the diamond-in-the-glass reunion plot is said to be spent after a 1911 film, a magazine story and a 1913 film); (3) slight disguise without a new twist; and (4) the obvious development, the "easiest way", whose outcome a reader can predict (a quoted reviewer: "we know ... just how the plot will work out"). They say a hackneyed look comes more from threadbare development than from the theme, and a surprise at the climax may redeem it. Coincidence is not treated in either chapter; see C3-B163-S34-01 to -07. · locator: ch. XIV lines 7376-7377 · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17903/pg17903.txt

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