I disagree, a story is like looking at a finished picture puzzle, the specifics are the pieces that make the puzzle, if you have two puzzles with different pieces but end up with the same picture it’s really irrelevant that the pieces were different.
But what you’re describing is that the whole picture is just the plot. That’s silly. The picture would be the story. The plot would just be what the shapes are that put the pieces together. But it’s a bad analogy.
Think of it more like a building. The plot is just the foundation. It’s what you build on top of that that really matters.
Um… a story is the overall chain of events. A lot of real stories can be boring. You could make a movie about someone’s day at work and if you pick a normal day the movie would be boring.
Most movies come down to executions. I think you could make an interesting movie about your day at work. The script would be boring, but if you create good tension through editing and hire some good actors, it would make for an engaging movie.
My biggest issue with CT as Episode 9 director is this. He is not the best at executions (whereas JJ very much, love it or hate it TROS is at the very least exciting to watch brainlessly). Jurassic World should be engaging, for instance, but it was more a boring action movie than action/horror like it’s predecessors. And apparently he made a really bad movie after JW, which I haven’t seen. So I don’t really trust him on that part.