Furkan's Dark Twisted Fantasy

Oh, The hero's journey a concept I have engraved in my brain from the constant battery of my script writing professors. If I was an infant the heroes journey was the colored shape blocks I was taught to put in the right slot. I digress. As a Film major the heroes journey was the first rule of writing I was taught. A formula not always perfect flexible in some ways set in stone in others. This topic made me dig through my own boxes of books to find a book I haven't looked at in years. Save the Cat! the last book you'll ever need on screenwriting. This book taught me my formula for the hero's journey. I found myself reading it over. Not too soon after I found myself rebelling. Looking into the nontraditional story telling. a rabbit hole for another time.

For this weeks reading, I read Akata Witch. This story had me very intrigued. This story played in the fantasy genre. Sunny is a great character trying to find her place. But as an Albino in Nigeria that becomes very difficult. This set of circumstances are very unique. I enjoy a good stop the bad guy story especially one where an evil black hat man is murdering children. this story reminded me of harry potter instead of muggels we have lambs and the leopard world instead of the magic world.

Before learning of Japanese horror I was a fan of Japanise art, anime, and culture. Myself having watched countless hours of Japanise anime and documentaries on the culture of Japan as well as other Asian countries. The major tropes that I could decern a difference between Western and Japanese cultures were ghosts and spirits. In western culture, ghosts are unwanted and feared usually seen haunting people or places. Many films have been made as horror is a cheap genre of film to make and ghosts that can't be seen are scary and makes it easy to shoot. The Japanese culture calls them spirits. I've seen a range of spirits. Ones that are worshiped, honored, considered good, and ones that help people. I've also seen them in many forms, not like the stereotypical western way of a white floating figure. I like how in the japanize culture they taking may forms my favorite being animals some wise and respected some tricksters and many in between.

As a child, I fantasized of being a vampire. What kid didn't at the age of 8. Those horror tropes of having fangs, being able to turn in to a bat, control people, and be immortal. were so cool to younger me. I remember vividly watching Disney's "Little Vampire" and running around my house with a blanket as a cape trying it bite my cousins. My mother never let me scary movies as a child so they seemed like another hero to me till I grew older and saw all the dark and scary movies I was deprived of as a child. Seeing vampires as these blood-sucking animals who only served their own agendas and hunger. I remember all the darker horror tropes vampires had of murdering the weak for blood and sleeping in coffins. As a teen, I watched "Being Human" on TV and liked the concept of Vampires being no different with families and lives. The character struggling to fit into the human world as he fought his urges and tried to find alternatives to killing people and using h

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein considered a "the" book of the genre used and referenced throughout time. An important textual reference which key tropes are used throughout the genre. As a filmmaker, I liked the immersive detailed descriptions Mary Shelley used when speaking of the world she had built through her writing. I see why Frankenstein was written into a screenplay by so many times. Mary Shelley goes into great lengths in her narration, making sure the audience knows what time of day it is as she writes of when the sun sets and the moon appears in the sky. Her description of the tone and environment the characters were in were so specific I could visualize how dark and dreary this world was or how alone or empty a character felt. Mary Shelley placed the audience in her world. The letters Frankenstein wrote really put the audience in his emotional state. I could visualize his pain and sorrow. I found it compelling how in these letters Frankenstein felt like more of a