How to Make a Zero-to-Hero Movie

It has been said that there are 4 ways to make a movie:

1. Man vs. Man
2. Man vs. Animal
3. Man vs. Nature
4. Man vs. Self

Within these categories, the zero-to-hero motif is very common. After viewing many of these type of movies, I have discovered the formula that the movie writers use to construct these movies.

The formula consists of 3 basic phases:

1. Inadequacy Phase
2. Training Phase
3. Accomplishment Phase

A graph depicting the protagonist’s dignity in each phase throughout the movie can be seen below:

The process flow diagram of the entire formula looks like this:

The graph and the process flow diagram pretty much summarizes over 90% of all the zero-to-hero movies, most notably sports movies.