Rags to Riches

Nollywood loves it’s rag to riches stories don’t we? Village girl marries rich city man and lives happily ever after. Man is down on his luck but a stroke of good fortune hits and he is appointed as the Chief Executive Office of his father-in-law’s company. We know and love these stories in their variant forms. 'New Money' a 2018 movie tells the story of a young girl, who goes from being a shop girl to a billionaire, after her father leaves her his empire to run.

Does Hollywood have a few of these?

As noted earlier, several story archetypes can occur in one screenplay so the aim here is not to force your screenplay into on archetype but to educate on the very many themes that can play out in story. And who knows? Your story may just create a hitherto unknown story archetype.

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