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Looks kind of dumb, so it's very Star Wars alright. (Off-Topic)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 09:56 (2025 days ago) @ Kermit

It’s a sloppy movie more concerned with fucking with expectations from one minute to the next because of some juvenile idea that the hero’s journey is somehow antiquated and needs to be subverted.

You know… the hero's journey is not some kind of requirement or anything. It's merely a description of traits in some kinds of stories. It refers to underlying dramatic principles of storytelling and nothing more. Why do you care so much about the particular manifestation of those structures rather than the story being told?

I feel like Joseph Campbell has done so much damage to viewers, critics, and screenwriters over the years.


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