Janine matched a template that had originated in a novel he read in adolescence, "Les Petits Soldats Russes" ("The Little Russian Soldiers").
It's a template that has served George Karl's team well all season.
Throughout the post-colonial period, Egypt has established the political template that has been widely emulated throughout the region.
Once the premise has been established, though, the movie will proceed according to the same, tried-and-true comedy template that has existed for decades.
The result established a template that has subsequently been used to rebuild colossi of contemporary family cinema, from Harry Potter to Indiana Jones.
The template that had prevailed – the stronger side bats first, scores over 300 and wins – was broken as a chasing side triumphed for the first time.
The template that had been used, according to the Wachowskis, was Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" (2006), because it had three autonomous story lines set in different eras; "The Fountain," which had a mixed critical response, had lost almost twenty million dollars.
From one point of view, Warner deserves praise here for finally jettisoning a Wonder Woman template that has been in place since the character's creation in the 1940s.
Instead, the Chavista propaganda machine crammed the events of that weekend into a Bay of Pigs template that has little to do with the historical record and everything to do with the propaganda needs of the regime.
The music is generally stirringly staged and performed, but however ingeniously the songs are worked into the action, it feels like a template that has been taken off the peg: this succession of euphoric gatherings and parties with tense behind-the-scenes moments may be the best or only way to make dramatic sense of a string of unrelated songs.
