Dystopian futures, children with special powers, a group of friends who rule the school, a misunderstood character who wants to take over the world. These are just some of the many tropes that are repeated over and over again in countless books and movies, yet they never fail to pique the interest of at least a hundred people. If there’s anything I learned from my creative writing class, it’s that there are a thousand ways to tell the same story. So, when movie directors try to do just that, I don’t mind. In class my teacher told us to sit in silence and look around the room for two minutes and then write a page about what was happening in the room.