Having stayed up to watch the Oscars last night, I've been thinking about the general election campaign from a Hollywood perspective. Could the reason for Labour's unexpected surge in the opinion polls be due to the fact that Gordon Brown is a more compelling character than David Cameron?
Imagine, for a second, that this election campaign is a Hollywood movie. The first question is what genre does it fall into? Answer: a sports movie. A typical sports movie documents a David-and-Goliath battle between two teams -- or two individual sportsmen -- over the course of a single season. There is the dominant team or sportsman -- the clear favourite -- and the plucky little underdog whom no one expects to win. (To read more, click here.)
