Ever since I saw Across the Spider-Verse, I’ve been really interested in the journey that Gwen Stacy undergoes in the film. I’ve already talked about the hubris of Miles, Miguel, and even the Spot, and how this is a core thematic element of the story – but Gwen’s very much got her own thing going on. So I figured I’d try and break it down a little here, with the help of one Joseph Campbell and a certain infamous narrative template – but I’m getting ahead of myself. A central plot point of Across the Spider-Verse is the idea of…
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Once, there was a terrible and wicked monster, who destroyed a great and peaceful kingdom, killing many and driving the survivors into a long and bitter exile…
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It is a strange and (to the best of my knowledge) unobserved tragedy that one of the greatest failures of the Lord of the Rings is on the part of Sam. Did I…
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I saw the new Matrix film the other day, and, though this blog is most assuredly not a review site, it does seem to tend towards a site about story-telling…
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