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.
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