Original 1968 Planet of the Apes is more sophisticated than either novel or reboots. Refactors hero's journey to mess with the return phase
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It is less Hero's Journey (Quest) than it is the quintessential Stranger in a Strange Land.
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incorrect -- Hero's Journey has specific storybeats -- that are in fact, different from other story archetypes.
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I disagree, that's the external scaffolding. The internal psych trajectory is the universal part
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calling every story a Hero's Journey is like referring to South Indian and North Indian cookery simply as "food".
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as it happens, both *do* conform to the same theory of food that was traditionally considered universal :P
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