In pinocchio, for example, we don't have any problem with a animated depiction of a wooden puppet rescue his father from the belly of a fire dreathing breathing whale at the bottom of the ocean. Somehow that makes sense. And it touches on these deep narrative themes that are really instinctual. They're high order abstractions and they touch us deeply emotionally and motivationally. We can fall into them immediately. A great artist has that operating in their imagination. And then can can put a new spin on that. That the thing, especially about the more mythologically oriented narratives, there has to be something new about it as well as the thing that's common and constant. So

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