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@JohnBarnesSF @MitchWagner @PatchouliW could you hazard a definition? (My OED is still packed, and Google disappoints)
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Robert Bolt (David Lean's favorite screenwriter) said in an essay that epic is about big people ...
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... who get bigger in response to big situations, and do even bigger things than we first imagined.
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I would add that epic tends to have focal characters rather than protagonists ...
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... and dangerous/opportunity-loaded environments rather than single central problems
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Epics worthy of name have enough and complex enough subplots so identifying "main plot" is always ...
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... a subjective rather than objective process at heart.
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Is Dr. Z about Lara being so desirable that great men and potentially great men destroy themselves?
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Or about Zhivago's quest to have a space where an individual just lives, in a century erasing that?
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Or is the whole thing one long detective puzzle for Yevgrav?
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Or a meditation on the failure of both high-minded idealism and crass materialism and how ...
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