![]() ![]() Using his love of photography, Marcus recaptures Journey's past, and through love and determination, helps him understand that family is really just people who love you. Despite gentle wisdom and help from his older sister Cat ( Eliza Dushku), Journey cannot understand why his beloved family doesn't always live up to his expectations. When Min deserted her children and the family farm, her son Journey ( Max Pomeranc) has nothing left but confusion. Jason Robards and Brenda Fricker starring as grandparents Marcus and Lottie who pick-up the pieces left behind by their restless daughter Min ( Meg Tilly). The film aired on CBS on December 10, 1995. Or maybe the once and future king is just waiting for someone who can pull him out of the darkness and help him reclaim his throne.Journey is a 1995 American Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film directed by Tom McLoughlin and starring Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker and Meg Tilly. Maybe in this post- Game world, everything in this genre looks like a knockoff-even movies based on the hero's journey that helped inspire it. Maybe these tropes have been subverted and deconstructed so often, particularly when it comes to epic fantasy, that no one wants to buy into the archetypes now. In fact, Ritchie's King Arthur made me wonder if we can even appreciate a fun, good-hearted version of the original heroic narrative anymore. And, despite a few signature Ritchie jokey scenes, it also shares Snyder's distaste for a good time. There's angst, and slow-motion, and grimacing-all the Snyder staples. At the same time, *King Arthur'*s dullest parts seem to have come right out of the Zack Snyder playbook, particularly his retelling of Superman's origin. Marvel movies, taking the second act blueprint of the monomyth to heart, have trained us to believe that heroes must be arrogant and narcissistic, and then learn a lesson, before they can pull the metaphorical swords from their stones. And after 20 years of endless superhero films, we've seen too many of those to accept a straight retelling. Meanwhile, the story of Arthur's rise from peasant boy to King of England is, more than anything, an origin story. And at this point, after Martin's painstaking deconstruction of statecraft and relentless demonstration that the road to bad government is often paved with good intentions, the notion of King Arthur rising to the throne and becoming a good king who makes mistakes but also rules justly with Merlin by his side feels particularly naïve. ![]() By now, we're conditioned to seeing the Chosen One meet a bad end. Throughout his Westeros books, characters who seem destined for greatness either die, suffer, or make terrible mistakes. In A Game of Thrones, he presents Bran Stark as a "young King Arthur" archetype, and then has something unspeakable happen to him. Martin deliberately set out to subvert the tales of Camelot, which he grew up reading. ![]() But after decades of Arthur and his narrative progeny, and especially after watching the twisted and sadistic progress of "chosen" characters like Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, going back to the original vanilla version seems, well, pointless. Whenever a young protagonist rises from humble obscurity to claim their destined greatness-like Luke Skywalker, Buffy Summers, or Harry Potter-they owe a debt to Arthur and to pop culture retellings like The Sword in the Stone, The Once and Future King, and Excalibur. American teen Phoenix Wilder (Sam Ashe Arnold) recently lost his parents in a tragic accident. And now, centuries later, his myth is probably the most classic of the "chosen one" stories-the original hero's journey. AN ELEPHANTS JOURNEY is set in the heart of Africa, where animals and humans coexist, if not always with positive outcomes. King Arthur may or may not have been a real person, but by the Middle Ages his Round Table and sword-from-a-stone maneuver were the stuff of legend. What’s Coming in the Next Game of Thrones Season? Look at the Clothes Arrow ![]()
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