I actually don't like Frye's "Anatomy of Criticism", because although it has the name of rational science, what it says is mostly Frye's personal fantasies and free will. The deviation left me a little scratching my head, but the "prototype criticism" he proposed was really eye-catching, in fact, the "prototype criticism" itself has its "archetypes", one of the earlier examples I know of is The incisive summary of Vatican, the master of the French comparative literature school, in "Comparative Literature":
A product of the mind is rarely isolated, whether the author intends it or not. Like a painting, a statue, a sonata, a book is grouped into a series. It has pioneers, and it will have successors. Literary history should place it in the category, art form, and tradition to which it belongs, and thereby assess the author's originality by measuring the author's hereditary creation. Likewise, when we study the successor of a work, it is all the more easy to see the value of that work.
Vatican's discourse expands from literary history to the universality of works of art, and just as Frye's "prototype criticism" has his "prototype", Vatican's "pioneer" theory should also have his "pioneer". ”, ingenuity is as rare as picking gold in the sand, and human history is like this long, ever-changing river of sand and sea. When we look at this film with this concept (in fact, not only DC, Marvel and other hero series, the story and the way are similar), we will probably find that these works themselves are inherited from a large number of civilizations, history and legends Inheritance, like a cauldron of miscellaneous dishes, is entangled with the nightmares and shadows of history. As for their originality, apart from those symbolic hero characters and the content migration of modern urban life, it seems that it is difficult to have other content.
So it is possible to understand and attach to the feast of these symbols, which, according to Vatican, is a kind of "intellectual pleasure", that is, the pleasure of understanding and interpreting, added to the feeling of these burning hero films Happiness is added to the emotions caused by emotions and thoughts. Below are some of the author's own explanations, which will be discussed in order to lead the crowd. (Of course, the origins of Greek, Roman, and Nordic myths and legends and these heroes are too obvious, and there is too much to say, the author will skip this one)
Is the Three Magic Boxes itself a witch-hunting imagination? And the prototype of Pandora's Box?
Is Batman based on King Arthur? And his twelve knights?
Batman's appearance is a religious mystery
Atlantis sinking deep into the sea?
Every time the switch is pulled in the film, there will be sparks and smoke scattered, similar to a potential reminiscence of the steampunk era? Including the operating system of Batman Nightcrawler, it is quite old...
Father brought you into this world twice, is the prototype of Cyborg "Frankenstein"? Why didn't he kill his father like "Frankenstein", a new delicate relationship seems to be struck between the two?
In the end, in fact, when we compare the two alien invasion wars, we can find that the heroes defending the earth can correspond:
The Elder King - Batman
Zeus - Thunder - The Flash
Star Guardian - Green Lantern - Friendly Alien Civilization - Superman
Of course, Aquaman and Wonder Woman are obvious inheritances, so there is no need to say any more. If the first two correspond to the marine civilization (Atlantis) and the forest civilization (Amazon forest), the steel skeleton should be the counterpart of an industrial civilization; among them, the bat The correspondence between the hero and the king is particularly intriguing. If the king holds the supreme power in the human world, in Batman, this power is transformed into the control and mastery of capital, as he himself said, "I am rich". "The superpowers give him the ability to organize heroes like the King of Humans. In fact, the ubiquitous capital world order dominates everything, which is expressed in the film as a kind of human values and customs, such as the end-note value. The blunt "fight, discover, heal, love..." like the propaganda film, therefore, even if The Flash can save the world beyond the speed of light, he still cannot rescue his innocent father in prison. Even if Superman is set to be invincible max, he still needs to Turning to Batman to buy the lost fields of the family - archetypal analysis seems to provide the possibility to interpret the subtext of the film, which allows us to glimpse the hidden "ghost" (the hidden desire consciousness and value judgment) behind these images, Perhaps this is where this way of understanding is really interesting.
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