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In some of my recent blogs, I wrote about the advances of technology, and I wrote about Clash of the Titans, but I would like to write a little bit about both of them together. Because as I was driving back from the film, and stuck in the rush-hour traffic of the early evening, I thought a lot about both.

Movies are, themselves, fairly recent developments all things considered. But when you strip everything away, they are really just a modern form of mythcraft. A modern form of storytelling. They are a throwback to times where bards and storytellers were the entertainment go-to-guys, and listening to stories told around a fire, or in a pub, was the thing to do.

With the advances in special effects and technology that permeate the medium, things develop and change and evolve, but the more they change, the more it becomes apparent that the core of a film itself stays the same.

The story; the heart of the movie, is just that: a story. And you can wrap it up in motion picture and fancy effects, but it’s still just a story. We pay to be engrossed in adventure, just like our ancestors, in ages before us, would have paid to hear their stories.

And that’s quite an interesting thing, I think.