In accordance with a viral TikTok, The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes shares practically the identical plot because the Star Wars prequels.
In a video uploaded again in November, TikTok person and musician @the_moonrocks explains how the Starvation Video games prequel movie specializing in Coriolanus Snow (AKA the long run President Snow) follows story beats practically an identical to that of the Star Wars prequel movies, which observe a younger Anakin Skywalker earlier than his rise because the evil Darth Vader.
Warning: Starvation Video games and Star Wars spoilers beneath:
“Do you understand that the plot of this film is actually simply the autumn of Anakin Skywalker? It’s the identical plot as Star Wars,” the person begins, referring to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
He explains that each movies observe a “younger impoverished teen trying to create a greater life for his household” who ventures right into a “metropolis stuffed with politics in energy, far-off from the preventing of the outer world.”
As soon as they arrive of their respective metropolis, their “skills and skills” are observed by the “absolute psychopath who’s working within the shadows to meet a villainous plot,” who concurrently needs to make use of the principle character’s expertise to advance their evil ambitions.
Alongside the best way, every younger man falls in love and begins a secret relationship with a phenomenal, brave younger girl — Lucy Grey Baird or Padme Amidala, respectively — who’s “violating a bunch of their society’s guidelines.”
Nonetheless, his subsequent actions find yourself getting him “shunned by the very establishment he swore his life to,” and when his lover refuses to go together with him, he flies right into a “match of rage.”
After murdering or practically murdering his lover, he “totally succumbs to the evil and goes on to have a legacy as a baby assassin.”
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Reactions had been blended within the feedback part of the viral TikTok, with some movie aficionados declaring that each plots merely observe the “traditional hero’s journey/tragedy.”
“You imply… storytelling and genres and tropes all observe the identical beats with totally different distinctive points? Fascinating,” one individual sarcastically wrote.
“All the things has the plot of Star Wars as a result of Star Wars was based mostly on traditional hero’s journey/tragedy, it’s actually on the coronary heart of ALL media,” one other person argued.
“THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY ARCHETYPES OF STORIES. THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS,” another person commented.
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