@tanuzou1027 You can’t find classical storytelling or male role models in the West easily anymore. Good vs evil, emphasizing virtue and struggle, personal growth, the hero’s journey, masculine and feminine. Anime still has it all.
@vincentdonofrio@StanleyKubrick Appreciate the insight. You owned the role, too, great work that stands the test of time. I can picture that thousand yard stare vividly.
@Criterion Excellent taste from Ms. Bigelow. Army of Shadows is brilliant. She knows how to ratchet tension quite well herself in her films, so it's interesting to hear about her influences in that regard.
@SandyofCthulhu Modern American video game writing has been captured by low effort flippancy, along with the MCU et al. Eager for a return to earnest storytelling.
Very few of us know the people at the tip of the spear. We can make the biggest impact by uniting against the handle, making that behavior far more taboo than it is now.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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