- loyal negro friend
- uncle remus character narrating the good ol' days to a white boy/man
- white writer selling black character's story to a white audience
- beautiful yet rebellious young lady of high breeding as love interest
- rich boy/man conflicted about his privilege
The story was true to the book and the friendship of Wade and Christmas was real, not a cliché at all. Believe it or not there was true brotherly friendship between some Blacks and Southerners after the War of Northern Aggression all the way up to now although not as common.
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My favorite: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
That does not excuse the fact that it is full of cliches.
shareYou must not know the difference between an archetype and a cliche. Cliches are found in movies where the archetype is exploited.
Sincere doesn't play well in our cynical age. Funnily enough that's what Ward was fighting against.
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A cliché is something that is used so often that it loses what made it interesting or in fashion to begin with. An archetype is tied to an older concept from psychoanalytic theory. at their core, archetypes are universal. these tropes appear again and again across the world and over different time periods.
there is nothing universal about recycling ideas that come from antebellum America. sorry. nice try.
So there are no archetypes in this movie? The lone hunter / anti hero? The loss of a child? People of different races not getting along is bad but people of different races getting along is bad?
Sorry, I tried to be nice and explore your definitions. Obviously we speak different languages.
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Indigo, I didn't put "lone hunter" or "anti-hero" on my list. I wouldn't disagree with you about obvious archetypes, so please don't pick a fight with me over obvious clichés.
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