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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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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I don't think you get mine. The base class for all narrative patterns is simply a departure from/partial return to a home state.
I use monomyth as prototype for median complexity case across whole space, hence derivation of double freytag

