The Movie: Who Takes The Hero Out Of Hercules?
movie review. I have not seen it.
"We’ve forgotten how to tell these stories — we drain the life out of them. We did it when we erased the gods out of the Iliad in Troy, and we’re even doing it to Superman, who now fights for “truth, justice, and all that stuff” because the American Way is too bourgeois. And that’s at the heart of it all: we’re afraid of valor, patriotism, heroism, because they feel unsophisticated and gauche. They’re not “realistic.” '
Question: Is the movie making quest in these myths and hero stories to promote "realism" an attempt to bring reality to the story? Or is it a way of deflating the concept of "hero" in our minds. He's really just a regular guy who was at the right place at the right time, and anyway, he didn't do anything that fantastic, that extraordinary.....Is that what is going on here, or something else? and flip side: do you love hero legends,stories even if they are wild and outrageous? Fantasies of Fantasy?
"We’ve forgotten how to tell these stories — we drain the life out of them. We did it when we erased the gods out of the Iliad in Troy, and we’re even doing it to Superman, who now fights for “truth, justice, and all that stuff” because the American Way is too bourgeois. And that’s at the heart of it all: we’re afraid of valor, patriotism, heroism, because they feel unsophisticated and gauche. They’re not “realistic.” '
Question: Is the movie making quest in these myths and hero stories to promote "realism" an attempt to bring reality to the story? Or is it a way of deflating the concept of "hero" in our minds. He's really just a regular guy who was at the right place at the right time, and anyway, he didn't do anything that fantastic, that extraordinary.....Is that what is going on here, or something else? and flip side: do you love hero legends,stories even if they are wild and outrageous? Fantasies of Fantasy?
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Progressing to your theater soon.
If I want to see whiners cheat the good guy, or someone winning just by luck, or any of that kind of nonsense, I'll read the paper. I WON'T pay money to the makers of the dreck.
Thanks for the post - we might have stumbled into this mess in error and been really, really annoyed.
Reminds me of that thread by Vinay 25 days back, stories as romanticism or naturalism.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/9b...
Romanticism= goal-directed action ....enterprise, free will, .... individualism.
The new class in its conflict with values, with individual as well as human improvement turns stories into blah. The creativity is limited to the scenery and computer generated violence.
I didn't watch that TV series with Kevin Sorbo for similar reasons.