It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting ascript as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.
But holding the Chinese public to a single script is proving more difficult than ever, especially now that citizens (and foreigners see next page) can write an alternative storyline on Twitter-like microblogs.
It followed a familiar script, one which rather sums up these two teams right now: Liverpool took the field with plenty of passion, but reaped less than it sowed because of some elementary mistakes.
With two gap ups this week flipping the script in favor of the bulls, traders will now be hoping for a slight pull-back to buy rather than chase stocks at these upper levels.
For most of the nine million Americans in sales (according to Bureau of Labor Department statistics), success now is much more complex than just sticking to the script and making a lot of calls.