Saturday, June 20, 2009

Wow, Deja Vu!

Hold On, I've Seen This Before: How Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix, and Harry Potter are Actually the Same Movie | Spiteful Critic: "Do your favorite movies sometimes seem a bit…familiar? When discussing Harry Potter, do you sometimes mistake Voldemort for Darth Vader? Do Neo’s abilities in the Matrix remind you of the Force, only just a little bit different? Well, you would be right, as the most wildly successful franchises of the last 40 years are basically the same recycled story you have heard over and over again."

Point by point comparisons at the link. This is what comes of all the writers reading The Hero's Journey.

2 comments:

Peter Rozovsky said...

That was an enjoyable article, but not to the hostile, defensive commenters who thought the author was attacking their favorites.
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Unknown said...

Luckily we don't have commenters like that here.