In addition to all those readings, we were also told to watch
this video of Moyers and Campbell talking about Star Wars. Earlier, they mentioned that some old religious rituals and morals needed to be replaced, since they have lost thier life-celebrating origins. I noticed that early in the video they mention that stories like the first Star Wars trilogy sort of fill that need to connect to the spiritual journey of the hero.
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| You can imagine how much money this would net you if you owned the franchise. |
Star Wars connected with so many people, it ended up drumming up a massive following. Even children today are growing up and getting into the films. Star Wars is probably one of the first pieces of media people think of when others bring up fandom culture. People can grow up with thier lives revolving around thier interests in movies, tv series and comic books like these.
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| Forrest J. Ackerman, the First Cosplayer
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There have been plenty of instances where a company uses mythology to promote their franchises, and depending on their skill and vision can reach large numbers of people. Anyway, getting to my point is that there are so many different fans and fans communities for just about any piece of literature you can think of. And a good number of them enjoy thinking about the archetypes and tropes in thier favourite piece of media and listing and cross referencing them obsessively. Where can you find the end product of this obsessiveness? Enter T.V. Tropes, a fan-run encyclopedia cataloging the tropes, themes and archeotypes of just about any type of entertainment you can think of.
I can spend hours on this site. Hours! Look, I'm doing it now!
Just to start you on your own personal journey into the deep abyss of procastination, I'm going to list my 5 favourite Narrative Tropes:
Deadly Decadent Court
Stoic Woobie
The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask
Red Oni, Blue Oni
Genius Bruiser
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