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00:30People dismiss it, and therefore you can say almost anything you'd like in it.
00:34People think of fantasy as, oh, that kid stuff. It's a bunch of made-up nonsense.
00:38But in fact, fantasy gives us the sense of something more.
00:42Fantasy tells us that there's something more.
00:44Fantasy is associated with older modes of storytelling.
00:49So myth, legend, and folktale that has always existed as part of human experience.
00:54So it's a way of imagining different pasts. It's a reinvention in many ways.
00:58There's a certain flavor of nostalgia, a certain flavor of longing for a place that never was,
01:04a time that never was, a place that has never been,
01:07a sense that you're trying to reconnect to something that was never there in the first place.
01:12With Lord of the Rings, Tolkien absolutely set the template for what we today consider the fantasy genre.
01:29It's almost like the genre reformed around him.
01:33Dungeon Draggers was a milestone in gaming history. It was totally different to anything that had gone before.
01:39This wasn't simply that I'm playing make-believe.
01:42I'm sitting around a table with my friends, and we are going on an adventure together.
01:48Suddenly, there's this whole new generation of moviegoers who see like,
01:53Oh, I didn't really know what fantasy was. Now I have a concrete example of what fantasy is, and I like it.
01:59Let's see what else is out there.
02:00It's years and years and years of kind of struggling, but bit by bit and piece by piece,
02:06fantasy moves from the very fringes to the very center of the pop culture consciousness.
02:11We'll see you then.
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