Happy Storyteller Saturday! What are some stories that have really stuck with you?
I will talk about the latest ones, cause I have too many to pick from - we writers are really formed by our fave stories aren't we XD - and I'm still reeling from them.
Best recent stories I have seen are Inception, The Departed and Body of Lies.
Inception is just masterpiece on world, dreaming, consciousness, plot, action, story and character. It has everything I could ever want a story to be, plus it's unique and amazing and mind-blowing. This is what art looks like.
The Departed is such a play with character angst, feels and suffering. I don't normally enjoy thrillers or sad endings, but damn this was something. This is what it looks like when the trust friendship thing we love to write so much doesn't work out.
Body of Lies has a better ending where the trust thing does work out eventually for the protags, very charismatic cast, and actual plot. I didn't even understand everything, this was made after a book from a real intelligence expert. It was cool seeing a movie set in Jordan, that I actually visited, but felt so foreign.
Some classics that stuck with me are Red Winter Trilogy, Ghibli movies like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away and Darker Shade of Magic trilogy from V.E. Schwab.
Also I lately discovered this old old cop show Starsky and Hutch from 1975s, and it's the hurt/comfort and bromance in this show is so pure and real. The two partners have such a great heartfelt purely platonic relationship, it's wonderful to watch.
Plus it actually still has an active fandom? How can something so old have a such a big fandom? Fanfics and tumblr blogs dedicated to it? The fanfics are a quality stuff let me tell you😁