The Buty Group · Analysis

What does the story actually teach?

182 kids' films, scored against a values rubric one parent wrote down, then checked against what audiences and the inflation-adjusted box office think. Any parent could write a different rubric. That is the point: if you can articulate your criteria, the moral structure of a story can now be measured against them.

40 inherited specialness & wealth 17 protagonist agency 17 emotional core 10 music 10 inclusiveness 6 romance framing

Segment width is the weight. The green fill is a real film: Coco, scored 95 of 100, tier S. The biggest question the rubric asks is the widest one: does the protagonist matter because of what they do, or what they were born into?

Coco (2017)
94%audience
95rubric
S
The Little Mermaid (1989)
88%audience
26rubric
F

Audiences love both films almost equally. The rubric does not, because it is not measuring whether a film is good. It is measuring what the story's structure endorses: who gets to matter, who solves the problem, and what counts as the prize. Where the two rankings disagree is exactly where the interesting films live.

Scores view

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Every film plotted: audience score against rubric total, tier bands S through F behind the points, bubble size is inflation-adjusted gross. Search any film to zoom straight to it.

75 films on the chart · 107 more scored, awaiting metadata

Rank view

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Audience rank against rubric rank, dots colored by tier, with the disagreement mapped into four named quadrants.

SAFE BETS HIDDEN GEMS BELOVED BUT CORROSIVE SKIP
Spearman ρ = 0.35 · modest agreement, rich disagreement

Each film is scored by Claude against a single rubric file, six dimensions with anchored scoring bands and named reference films, and every score ships with a written justification you can read on the chart.

The rubric measures narrative structure only. A film is never penalized for its rating, violence, or language. An R-rated film with an ordinary protagonist who earns their ending can outscore a G-rated film about a chosen one inheriting a throne.

This is a discovery tool, not a verdict. The weights above are one parent's values written down. Disagree with them, write your own, and the same machinery will score every film against yours instead. The capability, not any particular ranking, is the story.