... an aged and impotent king who rules over a sterile wasteland. The king's impotence gives rise to the invasion of a sea monster which is also symbolic of waste and sterility. The monster eats victims of the land and also attempts to eat the king's daughter who is also known as the princess tied to ... a rock. A hero from across the sea comes and slays the monster, returns the princess safely, marries her, and becomes the new king. This story also progresses in accordance with the seasons. The old king is synonymous ... with autumn, the slaying of the monster occurs in winter, the new ki...

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... , technology is shaping the way stories are told in the digital era. To be simplified, CGI is images that are created by computing process from a dangerous explosion to a realistic fiction monster. In the early days, CGI was mostly limited to science fiction (sci-fi) and action genres. It was specially used in the case requiring greatly remarkable digital special effects such ... ...

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... to the future generations showing them the hero as "the champion not of things to become but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo: Holdfast, the keeper of the past" (Campbell 1973:337). The hero is to be the agent of change in one's individual quest for intellectual and spiritual ... ...

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