I enjoyed her in Super Hero Girls where she came across as more annoyed that she had to do anything rather than apathetic. I know it was a kids cartoon but it was still good. I fear this movie will instead showcase her as an apathetic shit head who doesn’t care about anything until big moment or love interest etc occurs and then she’ll learn her lesson yada yada.
Hollywood can be so boringly predictable it makes me apathetic myself.
I hate to break it to you but those story beats are just straight up the Hero’s Journey. Campbell gets some criticism about his claims that they’re universal but they’re certainly popular far beyond Hollywood, and for good reasons.
I am well aware of the Hero’s Journey and have no issue with its popularity, but my problem is when it gets incredibly lazy, as large film studios with a franchise to pump out often do. It’s not interesting to have character with single trait who goes through a predictable arc with pointless or missing sub-plots just to end up at typical ending, yet that’s what we end up with fairly often.
Give me hints of backstory, three-dimensional characters and a story quandary that creates inner turmoil in the characters that actually makes sense. Throw out the first five drafts and come up with something clever that the audience didn’t immediately think of. Is that really so much to ask?
I enjoyed her in Super Hero Girls where she came across as more annoyed that she had to do anything rather than apathetic. I know it was a kids cartoon but it was still good. I fear this movie will instead showcase her as an apathetic shit head who doesn’t care about anything until big moment or love interest etc occurs and then she’ll learn her lesson yada yada.
Hollywood can be so boringly predictable it makes me apathetic myself.
I hate to break it to you but those story beats are just straight up the Hero’s Journey. Campbell gets some criticism about his claims that they’re universal but they’re certainly popular far beyond Hollywood, and for good reasons.
I am well aware of the Hero’s Journey and have no issue with its popularity, but my problem is when it gets incredibly lazy, as large film studios with a franchise to pump out often do. It’s not interesting to have character with single trait who goes through a predictable arc with pointless or missing sub-plots just to end up at typical ending, yet that’s what we end up with fairly often.
Give me hints of backstory, three-dimensional characters and a story quandary that creates inner turmoil in the characters that actually makes sense. Throw out the first five drafts and come up with something clever that the audience didn’t immediately think of. Is that really so much to ask?