--“Why do filmmakers bother with classical construction if ardent viewers consider it dispensable, even distracting?”

1. Plot may seem as obviously important as other aspects of a film, but it is the silent, underlying guiding-factor behind the rest of the film.
2. The layering the classical with post-classical serves to appeal to mass audiences--youth and then the intelligent audience.
3. Classical construction appeals to the mass audiences because it combines star power, physical action, and a other appeals.
4. Spectacle can only fill a small amount of the entire time of the film, so the rest has to be filled with those classical techniques of cause and effect and such.
5. Films can not only appeal to audiences, but also to other filmmakers who could help a filmmaker gain fame.