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America Is Running Out of New Ideas - The Atlantic

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In film, science, and the economy, the U.S. has fallen out of love with the hard work of ushering new ideas into the world.

Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here . Let’s start with a simple mystery: What happened to original blockbuster movies? Throughout the 20th century, Hollywood produced a healthy number of entirely new stories. The top movies of 1998—including Titanic , Saving Private Ryan , and There’s Something About Mary —were almost all based on original screenplays. But since then, the U.S. box office has been steadily overrun by numbers and superheroes: Iron Man 2 , Jurassic Park 3 , Toy Story 4, etc. Of the 10 top-grossing movies of 2019, nine were sequels or live-action remakes of animated Disney movies,

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