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XPost: rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, alt.legend.king-arthur
From: ws21@cornell.edu

In article
<045bde0b-52c7-4a57-8020-c8530def1412@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
 Duggy  wrote:

> On Sep 30, 5:42 am, Bill Steele  wrote:
> > I never said it was a perfect fit, just that it matches the
> > three-generation pattern of the story (I think the time it took Modred
> > to grow up counts as a generation). Obviously nobody is Modred, unless
> > they decide to make three more movies.
>
> The first generation which is little more than preamble to a story
> about the second generation which includes the third as a villain v
> the story of a first generation who is the villain in the story about
> the second generation.
>
> You're right about the fit not being perfect.
>
> A father, a son and an older mentor that "dies" is so vague it could
> fit  lot of things.
>
> Superman.  Jor-El is both the father & and the mentor who teaches from
> beyond the grave.  Throw in Superman Returns and you've got a third
> generation, too.
> Indianna Jones had a father.  Sure, he didn't die and come back, but
> he almost did.  And you can throw a third generation into that story,
> too.
> We've previously discussed LotR which has Uncle, Nephew and mentor who
> comes back from the dead.
> Etc, etc.
>
> You really don't seem to understand the essence of Arthurian legend,
> Star Wars or Campbell's The Hero's Journey.
>
> You have come up with nothing to back up your claim of "extensive
> borrowing from the Arthurian saga"
>
> ===
> = DUG.
> ===

I wouldn't agree on nothing. I came up with something. I probably
shouldn't have said "extensive." And no, I probably don't understand
those essences. I'm not a literary scholar, just a guy who goes to
movies.

Your examples stretch a bit further than mine, IMHO. And even if I can
prove that seven other people parked where I did, it doesn't get me out
of the ticket.

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