When Hollywood gets its hands on the Scottish referendum, maybe in a few hundred years, it'll be a smash hit.
A swashbuckling adventure in which a boisterous, William Wallacey guy wages war against the swotty nemesis who can inflict death by grey hair and treasury statistics. It'll be box office.
Tonight's TV debate? Not so much.
Alex Salmond versus Alistair Darling. Independence versus the Union. Like The Odd Couple without the gags.
And yet it will be compulsive viewing.
Sure, the audience knows it will trawl through a familiar script - currency, defence, EU, border controls, etc.
Yes, it might well feel like a repeat we've been watching for years - the one where both sides batter each other to a standstill on the key issues.
The referendum is set to take place next month But the attraction of STV's debate - and similar events to follow - is that it is the arena most likely to produce a 'game-changer'.
Bear in mind that Scots have lived this referendum campaign for years and many just want the noise to stop. The big arguments on the big issues don't resonate the way they once did, and still should.
What television provides is the opportunity to make a judgement on who to trust. The presentation under pressure in which voters will assess degrees of assurance and conviction. It will be critical in the effort to sway undecided voters.
There will be no Nick Clegg-style national awakening - Darling and Salmond have been around too long to benefit from any new-discovery status. Both men face different challenges.
Of the two, it's Darling who has most to lose. He has retained a consistent poll lead for the pro-Union Better Together campaign and, as such, he needs not to lose.
It is the challenge facing a football manager who's team's playing for a nil-nil draw - the position you might choose, yet fear. Too little ambition can lead to defeat and frequently does.
Alex Salmond might consider he has an advantage. If the arguments have become tired by repetition and neutralised by claim and counter-claim, then the point-scoring could lie with the independence message.
Whatever the context, independent is something that people, generally, want to be. It is something the 'Yes' campaign benefits from in a way that its 'No' opposition does not.
So listen for the buzzwords of independence from Scotland's First Minister as he reaches through the ribcage to squeeze the Scottish heart.
The word 'victory' might yet hinge on it.
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