The 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time

Film has provided us with some of the best put downs and most inventive threats. When the occasion calls for it, movie characters always know exactly what to say, saving face by turning their antagonist's red. It's a shame in real life most of us have to make do with taxi wit - when you think of the perfect come back while returning home in the back of a cab, crying hysterically to the driver about how you should have told David that yes as footwear goes you only own trainers, but you'd prefer to rock a crisp pair of Reebok Pumps than a cheap pair loafers bought at Shoe Zone. 

The Hero's Journey - The Monomyth

Nothing's original, everything's been done already. As Barthes stated in Death of the Author, 'The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.' This also holds true when that text is celluloid. All the stories you've seen are the same. Well, that's a huge generalisation but many of them do follow a familiar path.

Continuing on from Joseph Campbell's work, Christopher Vogler talks about the Hero's Journey - a structure and range of characters that protagonists are likely to meet in films and other stories that dates back to ancient Greek mythology and Germanic folklore. Because everything's a remix, innit.