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offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-29 17:48 [#02578672]
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When you Think About It.â„¢ aren't The Avengers the modern
equivalent of Homer (Greek fantasy guy, like GRRM with more
Gay Subtext)

I challenge you to. Think About It.â„¢


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-29 20:00 [#02578682]
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yeah I guess everything is derivative, especially things
related to American comic books


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2019-05-29 20:05 [#02578683]
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all the stories have been told, there are no new ones


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-29 20:37 [#02578686]
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im sure there are some great permutations to be told, but
nothing really that passes the Hollywood filter, if its too
complicated for a 5 year old to understand it doesn't get
made usually


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2019-05-29 20:59 [#02578689]
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this is the bullshit you and your acid friends keep telling
the masses since you god aphex tiwn has cooled down


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2019-05-29 21:05 [#02578690]
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sorry i got drunk at uni


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2019-05-30 12:26 [#02578722]
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I've been reading Ovid's " Metamorphoses" and there's a lot
of men becoming women and vice versa and it was written
about 40Ad and so when millennials think they're being
trendy changing gender I say to them that the whole thing is
as old as the hills and maybe they're not so shocking as
they think they are. Hello, is that the Women's Health
Centre? I wonder if you can help me, you see my balls
really hurt
. You don't suprise me, I read something like
that in a Penguin Classic, the nice old ones with the black
spines. That's how old. Think about it â„¢


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-30 13:36 [#02578723]
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Are your balls ok, Roger?


 

offline mermaidman on 2019-05-30 13:41 [#02578724]
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i’m sure they’re changing gender to be trendy and
shocking


 

offline mermaidman on 2019-05-30 13:43 [#02578725]
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but they make uncle roger mad for sure


 

offline RussellDust on 2019-05-30 14:27 [#02578726]
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The Greek gods were indeed more superheroes than god like.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2019-05-30 16:10 [#02578737]
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my faves are the genderposers who require it/its pronouns,
it's like sriracha for the brain
don't know about their balls
tiresias is cool


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2019-05-30 16:13 [#02578738]
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all the hollywood screenwriters are joseph campbell stans so
they're only able to wrote one (1) kind of screenplay
the hero's journey into my ass imo


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-30 17:14 [#02578744]
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haha exactly! and they always do it like this:

http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/the-five-key-turning-p
oints-of-all-successful-movie-scripts.html

At least for anything with a blockbuster budget.

(making links isn't working all of a sudden? did another
chunk of zilty's body just fall off?)



 

offline welt on 2019-05-30 19:26 [#02578747]
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Well, I'm reading The Lay of the Nibelungs right now.
And it's very similar to a blockbuster-movie. Icelandic
princesses that beat up Teutonic kings, muscular men in
shiny red armor, rape-scenes. So yes, The Avengers is
probably like Homer even though I don't know the plot of the
Avengers.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-30 19:34 [#02578748]
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I think Tolkien cribbed a lot from Germanic mythology, I
believe Tolkien is actually a german name as well


 

offline welt on 2019-05-30 19:38 [#02578749]
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Yep, Tolkien's ancestors are from East Prussia just like
mine
:O


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-30 19:42 [#02578751]
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I guess lord of the rings then is Germanic/norse
mythological traditions filtered through the British
landscape and culture, especially the Shire representing
rural England


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-30 20:57 [#02578767]
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It's funny I was just reading this relevant quote
in George Monbiot


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-30 21:31 [#02578774]
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LAZY_TITLE

I would like to read this one day, apparently George Lucas
used it as a guide for star wars


 

offline mermaidman on 2019-05-30 21:54 [#02578775]
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think about it aliens


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-30 21:59 [#02578776]
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triple buttocked salad snacks from wolf 359 with bright blue
bum holes


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-05-31 02:22 [#02578786]
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you god aphex

you god aphex. god aphex damn it


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2019-05-31 03:42 [#02578789]
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it's shite tho
campbell's a quack


 

offline wavephace from off the chain on 2019-05-31 05:08 [#02578790]
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What I'd like to know is why society only allows us to
specify our third person pronouns, when it's the first and
second person pronouns that really matter. I mean it's
pretty shitty when some asshole is using the wrong pronouns
behind my back, but it's 100 times worse when he does it to
my face. And my own use of the wrong first person pronouns
could point to some serious inner conflict


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-31 05:30 [#02578796]
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whys that?


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-31 12:18 [#02578803]
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He's known for downplaying differences between myths, and
cherry-picking the bits that suit his opinions. Like if you
said spaghetti and sushi were both a type of sandwich. You
got yer starch, meat, vegetables. The hero food's journey
through the stomach.


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-31 12:34 [#02578804]
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"The liver is a heart. They both got blood in 'em. Follow
your bliss. Batman is Thor." - Joseph Campbell


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-31 14:51 [#02578812]
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ah yeah ok, so he is saying all monomyths are from the same
origin, but in reality they are quite different


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2019-05-31 14:59 [#02578813]
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His monomyth theory is a bed of Procrustes and any story can be
made to fit if you're willing to mutilate it enough, tie it
in knots, cut the tits off, etc.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-31 15:01 [#02578814]
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how do you know these things, are you an ancient sage?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2019-05-31 15:02 [#02578815]
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I remember reading Theseus in primary school doing an
assignment on it, I don't remember him stretching a an evil
man on a bed and cutting his feet off


 


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