You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
DISREGARD YOU INTERNET, MY HOME IS GREAT AND YOU CAN JUST SLIP ON MY FUNERAL POTATOES AND FRY SAUCE AS I DRIVE MY MINIVAN TEN BELOW THE SPEED LIMIT IN THE PASSING LANE TO FOURTH NORTH AND FIFTH WEST WHILE COUSIN 34 AND I TALK ABOUT HOW SPRITE IS FLIPPING THE BEST AND HOW LAUREL LOOKS SO WHOLESOME AS SHE SINGS POPCORN POPPING IN HER MODEST BLUE DRESS.
Popcorn popping! My mom still sings that when spring comes around.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Before I go into stupid defensive mode, I'll at least justify myself:
Sure, the hero's journey is trite now, but it's trite because of Star Wars popularizing it. And the reason why it has staying power is because Star Wars did a really good job at using it, in that it didn't bother arbitrarily wrapping its plot around going through all the familiar steps and instead demonstrated, y'know, the actual point of Campbell's idea, that being that mythological stories tend to inevitably hit similar beats. And that's aside from the fact that the original is the best paced anything that I've ever seen.
I'm genuinely curious why you dislike so many things of this ilk; I don't think I've seen you express anything better than mildly positive opinions on most conventional media.
The hero's journey itself is not trite, in my opinion, however, it *can* serve as a crutch for people struggling with character development or even just general plot, which does lead to trite writing.
There are many, many novels which I would classify as high literature or art which utilize the hero's journey, and utilize it with a great deal of finesse.
There are, however, even more novels by writers who are just starting out or who just aren't very good who write a hero's journey without bringing very much to the table outside of it. This makes the plot feel rather contrived. This is especially true, in my opinion, of YA authors - they know they can generally get away with it simply because many children and young adults haven't been exposed to the same quantity or quality of writing, so it'll be easier for them to stomach it.
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not good.
One might even say that it is bad.
(*flops about like a diseased fish*)
like, i can't imagine actively wanting to see it more than once
A bunch of not boring movies: Dredd, Aguirre, Dead Man, The Princess Bride, High & Low, Tokyo Story, Amelie, Die Hard, Love Actually, The Third Man
also wiki tells me there were "maxichlorians", so i would like to point out that lol
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
write to avoid the hero's journey altogether and what you're left with isn't recognizably a story
some people can pull that off e.g. Borges but i wouldn't dismiss everything that had the hero's journey structure, that'd be very limiting
and freaking out for some reason on a deserted forum
every weekday from before 9 until some time around half 3 in the afternoon, continuous drilling next door
WHY haven't they finished yet
time to go do something else