What makes a great movie? GREAT ACTORS. Who's in the movie? White hats, black hats... and YOU. I'm in this movie. You're in this movie. What makes a compelling plot? SLAYING THE DRAGON. Check this little documentary about how the work of Joseph Campbell might be influencing the movie we're watching!
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Deepak? Ewwwwww.
Joseph Campbell's hero book is really dry old-style academia stuff. It's like Feynman's physics lecture books that everyone says it's a classic, but few actually got through them all.
And I'm a guy on a couch trying to fast-foward the movie.
Deepak is only in there for a couple short clips.
Heh, no worries.
I have read that Joseph Campbell book and it's probably causing my PTSD here.
Yeah, I've read a bit on this. I guess it would be a popular topic with people like Deepak. Also they've updated Campbell in Hollywood -- there was this article that discussed Hollywood's "hero movie" plot formula. Campbell updated for modern times. It's basically the format they follow for all superhero movies now.
Glitches are strange. Premonition, shamanism, future-telling, stuff like that, are all sort of similar, founded on something science don't understand yet. I'm familiar with some of Graham Hancock's stuff and his efforts in trying to figure out ancient consciousness. Even Christianity doesn't escape its touch: Both Saint Malachy and the Third Fatima message predict the fall of Rome (Vatican?) and if they weren't accepted by the church, they could just as well have been labelled warlocks and witches.