10 Movie Cliches That Need To Die

9. The Biopic Villain Always Being A Gay Music Manager

At this point, the music biopic is the most cliche-ridden sub genre in Hollywood. No matter whether the movies are focused on Queen or Elton John, they manage to make the life stories of each subject feel so familiar, to the point where it seems like there's a template each one has to colour between the lines of.

From playing in rundown pubs to the angry music executive who initially thinks the band/artist is terrible, there are so many familiar beats and characters covered in each new release.

Perhaps the most grating, though, is the evil manager who tempts the hero to a world of drugs, parties and, gasp, homosexuality. This fits in with the larger trope of villains in general being coded as non-straight, but it's particularly strange and frustrating to see some of the only supporting gay characters depicted as villains in movies about the lives of LGBT artists.

I have no doubt that in the shady world of music superstardom there will have been abusive, sleazy managers taking advantage of troubled prodigies, but the issue is they're so moustache-twirlingly one note in these films.