... is the example of everything is wrong with Hollywood CGI movies: technology overtakes storytelling, action is exaggerated to the meaningless and drama is put down the ordinary monotonous concept of good and evil. The concern of VFX usage is not distinctive in the history of cinema, where sound and color are also ... calm the audience into a deceptive sense of safety. The Resurrection plays as a purification stage that the Hero is formally reborn with the attributes of the Ordinary self and the experiences the character has been through along the road. The final battle means much more tha...

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... . "The [medieval] hero represents a kind of hypermasculinity, and exaggerated and perhaps idealized version of maleness that is promulgated with a social intention: ordinary men are to measure themselves against the impossible standard that the hero embodies, and from this conditioned inadequacy strive to fight harder and control themselves better ... courage, dignity, who becomes the savior of humanity in the face of adversity, he is a "superhuman", "semi-divine" figure placed above the ordinary human kind. The hero and his heroic conduct constitute the guidelines for the mere mortals to...

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... the manner of Alexander the Great, defeating nations and building empires; they emerge as youthful superheroes such as Superman, saving entire worlds with extraordinary superpowers; and they are seen as ordinary people, with no divine assistance or physical prowess, overcoming seemingly everyday obstacles to bring positive change to their world. In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the novel's aged ... once more to fight more great fish. Santiago seems to stand out among his Cuban community of fishermen only for his apparent frailty and lack of luck, but from amongst ordinary ...

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... them the alive mutual relation was established; technical, aroused only by necessity of objective mutual understanding, and, at last, the monologue disguised under dialogue in which two persons or more people in the strange twisting ways speak with themselves, believing thus, that they are relieved of painful stay only with themselves " (Buber M., Dialogue/ Buber M. Two images of faith. Ì., 1999. p. 140). The ... of all other freedom". Freedom is just what till now obviously lacked Charles which life similarly to life of people of his(its) circle, represented " flight in a bosom of res...

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... one, someone who intentionally embarks himself or herself to defeat and overcome hurdles for the sake of others. Courage I think is by far what separates heroes from ordinary persons. It is possessing the mental strength to undertake, overcome, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. In the epic story of the Odyssey, Odysseus the ... his men were captured by the Cyclops and held captive in his cave. Odysseus showed calmness in front of his men despite of ongoing slaying of his people. Through his bravery act he was able to blind the Cyclops that allowed them to sneak out the cave by h...

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