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The Hero of Their Own Story

I feel like this rant is half-baked, but I’m going to go off on it anyway and I suppose we’ll all see where we end up. There’s a sort of conventional wisdom for writers that originated apparently in 1992 that villain is the hero of their own story, an idea that has become corrupt over […]

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Frozen: On Villains, True Love, and the Friendzone [Spoilers]

Before you think I’m fast and loose about handing out movie recommendations, I only write about movies that I like. I subscribe to the “if you don’t have anything nice to say” doctrine because why waste time on things I don’t like? That being said, the obvious direction of this post is this: go see […]

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