Myth, Fairy Tales and Movies

Thinking some about

Myth, Fairy Tales and Movies

(good time of year to see a good movie or 3)

Fairy Tales seem mostly to be true. This is becuase they are attempting to teach things that are truths. Lots of focus on right and wrong and things that reflect our deepest longings.

Myth on the other hand mimics the thinking of what heaven is thought to be about. It often goes deep to our prmordial past.

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Good Movies have some Fairy Tale and some Myth

George Lucas said that myth is psychological archaeology. He felt that the success of Star Wars was that it was built around those archetypal patterns of human perception. That probably means that it taps into the deeper reality people have perceived from the roots of time, through myth.

A good example of a movie that seemed to have stopped in the middle as far as it mythic qualities was "King Kong". Once Kong left the island the mixture of plot and interaction with myth seemed to end.

"Some" favorite movies

(I would suggest that they all draw from Myth and Fairy Tales)

The Godfather
Schnindler’s List
Star Wars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Citizen Kane
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Matrix
Apocalypse Now
To Kill a Mockingbird
Raging Bull
The Great Escape
Some Like It Hot
All about Eve
2001 A Space Odyssey
Batman
Terminator
Braveheart
Star Wars
The Sixth Sense
Cool Hand Luke
Back to the Future
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
The Graduate
Gandhi
Stand by Me
Patton
Gone with the Wind
Groundhog Day
The Philadelphia Story
King Kong (s)
Walk the Line

Planet of the Apes