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Author: oneuglybunny

Mar 7th 2013 at 6:53:08 PM

(Be brief, Bunny, be brief. *cleansing breath*)

* The Game Changer in HowToTrainYourDragon is Hiccup discovering that dragons and humans are ''not'' mutual adversaries.  The "kill on sight" directive in the Viking Handbook is fanaticism, and the dragons are raiding the Viking village under orders from an EvilBoss.  The dragon revolution against the Red Death cements this change into NothingIsTheSameAnymore.

* The LawAndOrder example I gave was intended as an ''aversion'' to the Game Changer.  My argument was that the complicity between the Mob Boss and the woman accomplice was a PlotTwist, but that their effort to thwart justice failed to derail the prosecutor's game.  In hindsight, this was a YMMV example, dependent upon perspective.

* Indeed, TheDaVinciCode really doesn't have a game changer.  The cryptex that everyone's trying to attain is a {{MacGuffin}} more than anything.  In fact, this film seems a better example of PlotTwist without Game Changer.  Motion to strike TheDaVinciCode example as irrelevant.