Why the movie failed
No one had any faith in the original graphic novel which was a series of funny incidents between the students, the teachers and each other. They felt they needed a "serial murder" plot device added to make it marketable/palatable/exciting. They ruined it. All they had to do was look at the success of M*A*S*H. It had no plot. It had a beginning where Hawkeye enters the camp and an end where he leaves the camp. In between there are funny sequences that could have been shuffled into any order. M*A*S*H succeeded where Art School Confidental failed.
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