Sean Fennessey
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I mean, Conan, obviously.
Conan looms large.
Yeah.
The only other thing is that I thought about including the Ray Harryhausen movies and it's like, what is that?
What's the line between Greek and Roman mythology versus high fantasy?
And how much, you know, I could put the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad on a list like this.
Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is that.
Harry Potter is magic and it's also a coming-of-age drama about being a young person in school.
You know what movie Masters of the Universe has a lot in common with that is in this conversation?
Is The Princess Bride.
Yes.
The Princess Bride is like a deconstructivist exploration of a lot of the tropes of those stories, but it never...
It never is like, we're doing a metatextual thing.
It's like, it's playing it straight, but there is a sense of comic tone that I think Reiner and Goldman were like such a great match for that story.
And the actors that Reiner is able to cast, just getting Billy Crystal and Wallace Shawn and all of these people in that movie that lets...
It lets it have that cake and eat it too in a way the masters of the universe never can.
But that's so hard.
I mean, there's a reason that movie is so legendary.
Yeah.