My favorite Tolstoy work is Anna Godzilla. It's about a giant pre-historic lizard who has an intense affair with an imperial Russian count before completely wiping out Saint Petersburg.
Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god
And let me guess... This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed?
That's a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you're talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media
It is the puppet master and starting from the first scene almost everyone is murdered by puppets. No hero, no journey. Just a fun little ride for the viewer.
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jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 251d
My favorite Tolstoy work is Anna Godzilla. It's about a giant pre-historic lizard who has an intense affair with an imperial Russian count before completely wiping out Saint Petersburg.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 12 pts · 251d
It's kinda true, but incomplete. There's twelve stories that we've told each other since antiquity
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 251d
It's a different number every time. All it really means is that people really like categorizing things.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 250d
There's only one story we've been telling each other since antiquity and it's that we only tell each other X stories to each other since antiquity.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
There are only 2400 stories...
theneverfox@pawb.social · 1 pts · 250d
I always say it's 12...
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
I watched a movie where a wizard bound souls to puppets and then those puppets killed the people that helped him learn how to bind souls to puppets.
Is that one of the 12?
theneverfox@pawb.social · 5 pts · 250d
Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god
And let me guess... This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed?
That's a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you're talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media
How close was I? And what's the movie?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
It is the puppet master and starting from the first scene almost everyone is murdered by puppets. No hero, no journey. Just a fun little ride for the viewer.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
Yes.
DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 251d
No, you seem to be relying on old data and are wrong. Newest estimate is that there are ~15.83 stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 251d
Mechagodzilla erasure
Glemek@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 251d
That's just a strange godzilla comes to town
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d
A man going on a journey is just a stranger comes to town, told from someone else's perspective.
x4740N@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
I recently watched that ST:VOY episode with Leonardo Da Vinci so I can't stop mentally associating this guy with him
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
Is this the Duck Dynasty guy?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
The third story is a sorority party not having enough money to pay the pizza delivery man
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 250d
What are you doing step pizza delivery man?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
You can almost hear the echo from within the washing machine