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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2266120" data-attributes="member: 18549"><p>Star Wars is funny that way. It not only draws upon many classic fantasy archetypes (young idealistic but naive hero, aged and mysterious mentor, descent into underworld, finding the hidden power within, etc...) but also quite plainly has magic. It's the classic mythical fantasy story overlaid on a backdrop of starfighters and aliens. Hell, they even fight with swords to rescue a princess.</p><p></p><p>Also, the whole "knight rescuing princess" thing is more properly romance than fantasy. Some of the earliest popular fiction was French literature in the romance genre, and unless I'm mistaken it's the origin of the French word for novel, "roman." However, the difference between romance and fantasy is, again, the presence of magic. Not in the sense that an evil wizard kidnapped the princess, but in the sense that the world operates on a set of rules that are different than the real world, and this affects the outcome of the story, usually by the main character achieving some mastery over these rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2266120, member: 18549"] Star Wars is funny that way. It not only draws upon many classic fantasy archetypes (young idealistic but naive hero, aged and mysterious mentor, descent into underworld, finding the hidden power within, etc...) but also quite plainly has magic. It's the classic mythical fantasy story overlaid on a backdrop of starfighters and aliens. Hell, they even fight with swords to rescue a princess. Also, the whole "knight rescuing princess" thing is more properly romance than fantasy. Some of the earliest popular fiction was French literature in the romance genre, and unless I'm mistaken it's the origin of the French word for novel, "roman." However, the difference between romance and fantasy is, again, the presence of magic. Not in the sense that an evil wizard kidnapped the princess, but in the sense that the world operates on a set of rules that are different than the real world, and this affects the outcome of the story, usually by the main character achieving some mastery over these rules. [/QUOTE]
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