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“Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.”

Thinking Might Taken Hero Super Hero

Author:Max Landis

“The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.”

Sex Fiction Roles Gone Taken Hero Female Competition Endure Males Theme Survivor Surviving

Author:Warren Farrell

“In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill him, demonstrates his precocious wisdom already as a child, receives a divine commission, defeats demons, wins acclaim, is hailed as king, then betrayed, losing popular favor, executed, often on a hilltop, and is vindicated and taken up to heaven.”

“I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.”

Way Believe Stills Certain Choices Individual Taken Influence Hero Circumstances Don't Believe Villain Wrong Way

Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.”

Years War Enough Guy Fighting Taken Wife Hero Horror Kissing Eras Girlfriend Goodbye Very Romantic Horror Of War

Author:Woody Allen

“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”

Whole Suffering Emotion Taken Source Hero Scene Essentials Tragedy Add Wide Pity Chiefs Proportion Tragic Ingredients Woe Exceptional Calamity Vary Extending

Author:A. C. Bradley