"It's useful for thinking about certain things in our lives -- if society was different in some way, what would it be like?" The narrative is not the only thing that feels dated (or archetypal, if you're a fan) in "Star Wars". The science, too, often feels stock.
And because it's pretty easy to slot common stereotypes regarding certain disabilities into the archetypal clichés that infest the dating-game genre.
"Along with The Beano, The Dandy is the archetypal kids' comic and, in fact, it pre-dates its stablemate by about a year," Mr Lindsay-Bullock said.
Yes, "Homer & Langley" has its moments, but they are mostly abstract: Langley's self-styled "Theory of Replacements," in which human experience is seen as not unique or individual but endlessly cyclical, or his idea to produce "Collyer's eternally current dateless newspaper," where the stories would be archetypal, not specific, and so would never go out of date.
Quantic Dream's output, which amounts to just four shipped titles to date, is predominantly big on narrative and short on archetypal action.
Doug Harvey of LA Weekly called the film "his most accomplished hybrid to date, superimposing intricately choreographed actors going through vague but archetypal film noir routines on top of gorgeous full-color time-lapse footage of the entropy-shredded Ambassador Hotel".
(Ms. Stenham now lives with her sister, Daisy, and is dating the actor Harry Treadaway). "Martha is an archetypal British woman, women that my friends and I know well," Ms. Stenham said.
Although superheroes are archetypal, each succeeding generation of filmgoers demands a more up-to-date hero.
As tales of life-altering love go, this archetypal fable about a spinster and a traveling con man has the up-to-date electricity of a manual typewriter.
With the fundamental and second-harmonic fields oriented parallel to the polar axis, the value of χ(2) is larger by almost one order of magnitude than its value in the archetypal electro-optic materials GaAs11 and ZnTe12, and in fact larger than reported in any crystal to date.
