Sentences with phrase «hero archetypes»

Whereas Altair questioned Western conceptions of who could serve as a hero, Ezio drew from classic Western hero archetypes such as Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and even Batman.

You've got two seemingly generic fantasy hero archetypes (a scantily clad elf ranger and beefy human warrior), a simplistic, overarching plotline and gameplay that has you wading through the same (or very similar) enemies throughout most of the campaign.

But free will is an essential ingredient of the quintessential American hero archetype - the explorer, the pioneer - the lone individual who rises to the challenge and saves the day through skill, grit, and initiative - Cooper.

It takes the modern hero archetype and turns it on its head.

Their approach is a kind of down - home magic realism and their hero an archetype of folklore — Br «er Rabbit or Paul Bunyan — whose doings amount to a collection of tall tales.

But beyond the tried - and - true hero archetype, he's not given much else for his journey.

Costner is also the great American Gary Cooper hero archetype: tall, good - looking, dim - witted, and dull as dishwater — working almost exclusively in the realm of the sort of guileless red - blooded manifest determinism that loves mom, apple pie, horses, dogs, and guns.

And it does seem that in Hombre, the entire western genre is «going bad»: the costumes aren't quite as clean, the colour of the hats not so sharply delineated, the lone hero archetype is marred (though not irrevocably) by the assassination of JFK (the «irrevocably» part will come with the assassinations of RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.), and the manifest morality of incursions against indigenous peoples shaded with uncertainty now two years after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

After starring in The Captain from Castile, Tyrone Power strayed a bit from the grand plan set out by Fox Czar Darryl Zanuck and made a pair of comedies before returning to the period action hero archetype he fitted so ebulliently.

It's just that, despite being based on fact, at times, the movie feels and plays like a formulaic disaster flick, with Banderas as the dynamic hero archetype.

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His personality matches that of the conventional hero archetype and he is willing to place his life on the line for the sake of others.

Not exact matches

The comedy actor never fit the archetype of a hero, especially one with such an established history.

He is the archetype of the conservative providential hero (for example Richard Nixon was a great gaullophile); authoritarian democrats like Putin and Erdogan are sometimes compared to de Gaulle.

He was a Byronic hero — rebellious and arrogant, while romantically enticing — and the archetype alpha - male that symbolised brutal masculine force.

The movie may borrow heavily from the traditional superhero formula - the alien baby sent to Earth from a dying planet, the protective sidekick, the spunky investigative reporter - but Megamind successfully turns the traditional archetype of the hero tale on its head.

Critics Consensus: Written by a teenager (and it shows), Eragon presents nothing new to the «hero's journey» story archetype.

This quintessential noir hero walks into a story his archetype is all too familiar with: a pretty girl in trouble and a gangster looking to get paid.

What's constant between this and Harris's Hannibal Lecter trilogy is his interest in broken heroes: the inversion of the man of action archetype that germinated in the Fifties Western tradition and flowered in the voodoo ego - nomics of the Reagan - mad Eighties, locating Black Sunday firmly in the deep well of Seventies cinema — filthy with ineffectual champions and astringent endings.

Simultaneously, he uses his actors either imagistically or metatextually: the three leads embody their respective roles — hero, girlfriend, sidekick — almost deliberately as archetypes, while Fishburne trades on the gravitas of his past performances to offer a clear - eyed, authoritative counterpart who, perhaps not unlike Morpheus in «The Matrix,» challenges their naive ideas about the world around them.

Usually these figures represent typical movie archetypes: hero, killer, almost - retired cop, but this movie is not about fairness and happy endings or the predictable.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

Its story was fairly straightforward and mostly dealt in archetypes — a hero's journey that coupled «Top Gun» with «Godzilla.»

«Game Change» is patterned on redemptive Frank Capra and Preston Sturges archetypes (a dash of «Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington» and maybe quite a lot of «Hail, the Conquering Heroine» — minus the hero's moral torment over misrepresenting himself), even if the screwball energy is missing.

The former indicted Gerwig as part of a nouveau - boho class of Brooklyn artists who blended the slacker archetype of the early»90s with a kind of scarf - wearing artistic pretension; the latter was a term invented as a critique of movies that created female characters whose dual purpose was to beguile the male hero and then send them on their way a changed - for - the - better person, all without asking for even basic personhood of her own.

Most travelogues, whether in short story or book form, follow the narrative archetype defined by Joseph Campbell as the Hero's...

The hero's journey is based on the work of screenwriter Christopher Vogler, whose book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers was in turn based upon his interpretation of the archetypes described by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Fahero's journey is based on the work of screenwriter Christopher Vogler, whose book The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers was in turn based upon his interpretation of the archetypes described by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand FaHero with a Thousand Faces.

Each character resembles a familiar archetype (the loner, the hero, the tough gal, the jive talkin» black man, etc.), however the game plays off and warps the very stereotypes its franchise created, which helps to create a emotional connection due to their ability to surprise you with their actions.

Where Chronicles X drops the ball a little is in its character archetypes, falling a little too easily in the cliches seen in so many JRPGs — from the chisel - jawed hero to the anime - eyed, over-sexualized pre-pubescent girls, to the outfits that suggest an upcoming date with Christian Grey — the plants, animals and environments show no lapses of imagination.

There's 13 heroes to choose from, who happen to stick to certain character archetypes due to their varied abilities.

There are four heroes to choose from, based on standard gaming archetypes — a tank, a healer, a fighter, and a mage.

A villain like Gabranth brings a sense of humanity to the evil side blurring the line between light and dark that is so common in the hero / villain archetypes of the series and a political narrative ties it all together unlike any of the save the world scenarios so common to be found in Final Fantasy.

Skills can be found and applied to the six main characters all of which apply to each hero's archetype / class.

[2] In the early 1960s, he concentrated on specific archetypes in paintings and woodcuts, mostly of rebels, heroes, and shepherds, becoming increasingly interested in anamorphosis, the distorted or monstrous representation of an image, as exemplified in the proportions and facial features of his figures.

Our best cultural archetypes — Sponge Bob, Rat Fink, Alfred E. Neumann — play the fool effectively, but not Uncle Money Bags, who is both a hero and a villain.

Starting from the European equestrian statuary, where in the place of a hero he positions a monkey, Zhou Yilun constructs provocative and creative visual objects, which in fact deconstruct various archetypes of the Western art history.

In questioning film's ability to capture the precarious spirit of a split second, the exhibition subverts the notion of the athlete - hero, an archetype - illusion perpetuated by win - in - the - end blockbusters and televised playbacks.

But a hero is probably the wrong archetype to enlist.

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