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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8194087" data-attributes="member: 18">You literally don't understand what he's saying.LotR, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Harry Potter, Narnia and How to Train Your Dragon are all the exact kind of movies he's describing. Re-read his sentence carefully.Those are the movies that support his point. They're some of the most successful fantasy movies, and they're from other people's stories. That's what he's saying works.Pirates and Maleficent are are slightly more interesting cases. Pirates is basically woven out of whole cloth. It's loosely inspired by a Disney ride, and takes it's aesthetic from that plus a lot of pirate mythology. It was considered an incredible risk and nearly shut down a bunch of times. Maleficent is also woven out of whole cloth, but is much safer, because it's just creating an elaborate backstory for an existing character. So these are sort of mixed cases. You could say they went against his point, but not strongly.What you need to find is a fantasy movie that is not based on a book, or a specific fairy tale, or a specific incident in mythology, or a computer game. One that's completely new. Examples would be Krull or The Dark Crystal or Legend or Labyrinth.Of those, Krull and Legend support his point because they're godawful. The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth however, are good, so counter his point. However, they're both Jim Henson and rely heavily on puppets - which doesn't make them bad, but does make them specific. So it would be good to have examples of fairly high-fantasy movies which were "original" (as in not based on anything else specifically).</blockquote>

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