A “typical Campbellian Hero’s Journey”, beloved of lazy film execs and writers, very often leads to generic, preachy, “hit all the mandatory plot points” junk. A film does NOT need to teach you some (usually obvious or lame) lesson to have value.
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Cheap prop? Seriously? Go to the Smithsonian and tell me it looks like a cheap prop:
You also can’t do the Freedom Fighters without my childhood favorite The Human Bomb.
There is only one real option, recast the part. It’s messy, but it works. They did it with Dumbledore, they can do it eith Leia.
One theme that Dick keeps coming back to over and over in his books (such as The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, The Unteleported Man and hell, just about everything else) is just how hellish life would be in an off-world colony. Unless, of course, you have some CHEW-Z or even CAN-D to get you through your… Read more