• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I recently watched that ST:VOY episode with Leonardo Da Vinci so I can’t stop mentally associating this guy with him

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    13 hours ago

    A man going on a journey is just a stranger comes to town, told from someone else’s perspective.

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
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    20 hours ago

    It’s kinda true, but incomplete. There’s twelve stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity

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      7 hours ago

      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?

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        6 hours ago

        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?

    • DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works
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      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

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    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.