For a guide that not many individuals find out about or have learn, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890) has had fairly an affect on cult cinema, notably within the ’70s. For causes that might take too lengthy to enter right here — and due to its affect on Joseph Campbell’s 1949 guide The Hero with a Thousand Faces — it seems that Frazer’s non-fiction investigation of faith, mythology, folks tales and the next journey to science has since formed movies as seemingly far afield as The Wicker Man, the very first Star Wars, and Apocalypse Now. Effectively, you wouldn’t essentially ever put these three movies on a triple invoice, however, when you see it, there’s a sure overlap, largely within the idea of the unwitting hero, a person chosen by destiny, and never essentially for the higher.
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