Flashback Friday: A Far, Far Better Thing

3:38 PM Amanda Prahl 0 Comments

Today is the first Flashback Friday here at The Storyologist! I'm at a writers' conference this weekend, and since everyone is already overanalyzing this year's movie in anticipation of the Oscars on Sunday, I thought you might enjoy something about a snubbed movie from two years ago. I hope you enjoy!
The glut of superheroes in current pop culture has been well-documented and written about to an almost excruciating degree. So when I say that one of the most talked-about superhero movies of the past decade is, at heart, a comic-book-ization of a nineteenth-century British novel read by every high school student in the English-speaking world (and, let's be honest, subsequently forgotten by about 90% of them). When watching The Dark Knight Rises, I was really struck by the constant references- both explicit and subtle- to A Tale of Two Cities, and to Bruce Wayne as a modern-noir Sydney Carton. As a bit of a literary nerd, I thought perhaps this was worth a further discussion.



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Hiatus and return

3:02 PM Amanda Prahl 0 Comments

Hi all, just a quick note to let you know this blog isn't dead! I've just had to take a couple months off to deal with some health stuff that has prevented me from spending much time on the computer writing. I'll be back posting more regularly very soon!

~The Storyologist

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