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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > In This Thread: Luke turned off his targeting computer and fucking missed
 
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War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Darth Brooks posted:

I know the thread is "Lol, what if?!" but a lot of early to mid 70's cinema ended badly for the protagonists. Going in to see it the first time in '77 you could legitimately feel there was a chance he was going to fail. Having the hero win was different enough from the formula to help make the movie a hit.
Really? you think there was a chance that the guy who follows The Heros Journey to a T could have ever possibly failed?

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War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Darth Brooks posted:

Silent Running was a direct precursor to Star Wars. The movie ended with the hero committing suicide and sending the last forest on Earth into deep space. The Planet of the Apes movies ended with the end of all life on Earth. Soylent Green ended with the here shouting out to the surrounding crowd, "Soylent Green is people!" At the end of A Boy and his Dog the hero murders the female lead and feeds her to his dog. At the end of the Stepford Wives the heroine learns to imitated the mindless robotic wives of the town.

So, pretty dire. And that's just Sci-Fi. It's not counting Crazy Larry and Dirty Mary where the leads all die in a train wreck, The Great Waldo Pepper, where you realize that the airplane he's flying is too damaged to land, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and Little Fauss and Big Halsy, which ends badly at the end for the hero.
and did any of these movies feature a baby-in-a-basket meeting a wizard and a princess within the first 20 minutes?

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Feldegast42 posted:

Did anyone know or care much about the heroes journey pre-star wars outside of academia

People like Robert E. Howard and Jerry Siegal had at least an innate understanding of it. Yes

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > In This Thread: Luke turned off his targeting computer and fucking missed