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Perhaps we should take a cue from Hollywood.
Not the Hollywood sign in large white letters on the side of a hill.
The Hollywood as in the big screen.
Sometimes, when it comes up with a blockbuster idea (and even sometimes when it doesn’t), Hollywood treats us to a sequel.
No doubt hoping the magic that accompanied the original might, at least in a small way, might rub off in the sequel.
The story line is obviously a bit different.
It may be even better than the original story line.
The actors — at least some of them — are often the same.
But, as William Goldman (screenwriter for a number of Hollywood hits, including “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Marathon Man,” “All the President’s Men,” “The Princess Bride”) observed in his informative 1983 book, “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” nobody seems to know anything.
The secret sauce remains elusive.
The original could have been a blockbuster for a variety of reasons.
