35 Movie Tropes and How to Avoid Them in Screenwriting Most audiences can agree that movies often lose their impact when writers cut corners and rely on cliches and overused movie tropes. But what exactly is a movie trope? A movie trope is a commonly used device or motif very familiar in both its conception and execution. Movie tropes don’t always have to be bad. In comedy, a movie trope might be used for laughs, for example. Or a
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