00:01Peggy 16
00:11It's hard to answer the question, what is a hero?
00:13Because it's such a broad term.
00:27A hero is something that we all ultimately aspire to be.
00:30Who doesn't want to be a hero?
00:32Who doesn't want to save the day?
00:33Somebody who has the ability to transcend things the normal person is not able to do
00:38or a normal person would be fearful of doing.
00:40A hero is the vessel for our secret wish.
00:44Someone, I think, who is courageous in spite of their fear.
00:49He's a destroyer. The hero is a destroyer.
00:51The hero brings forth the new light.
00:53That's why, you know, it's that old saying, you know,
00:56we run off into the sunset after the hero, you know, does his thing.
00:59And it's about riding on into the new journey because you need to transcend.
01:03Somebody who beats the odds.
01:05Somebody who goes above and beyond.
01:08You know, heroism is about what you do when nobody's looking.
01:11He's the person who goes forward when we're afraid.
01:15The hero has to be very dignified.
01:17The soldier who's sent into battle.
01:19Veracity, there's a truth, a very solid truth.
01:25Fighting great villains or fighting great creatures.
01:27Yeah, the pilot who landed in the Hudson.
01:30We look toward heroes to instruct us or to represent us and even to represent our fantasies.
01:37Looking at a hero, you almost escape yourself in a certain fashion.
01:41Because we want to see the human experience writ large.
01:44And the way you write that large is just by telling a story that has externalized violence and conflict.
01:49It's fun to do action.
01:51I like kicking ass and taking names, you know what I mean?
01:53I'd probably run, you know.
01:55I have punched people.
01:56I almost broke my fingers.
01:57Definitely exhilarating to fight.
02:01Believe me, I like to see the logic of the fight so I know why he's kicking his ass.
02:06Handguns love him, just went to shoot some yesterday.
02:10It's cathartic, right?
02:11Fundamentally, you know, the game is about action.
02:13In the midst of that, I'm trying to weave a story through.
02:17Can you find a story that both engages and instructs?
02:21I love making films that are physical if the character has something to defend.
02:27We want to tell stories that don't have this sort of cognitive dissonance in them.
02:31That don't make you feel like you're somehow, you know, stooping when you play a video game.
02:36That somehow that's an activity for 14-year-old boys and not for 47-year-old women.
02:41What I love in action films is if you get the sense that the character is smarter, too.
02:48You know, someone that actually thinks about why he's doing what he's doing.
02:53You're celebrating his mind, his capacity to think really, really fast, almost multitask.
02:59And I think it's our responsibility to tell stories in the midst of all that visceral fun that's the same
03:06with people.
03:07We look to stories to actually do something to make sense of our experience.
03:13I believe that stories are the way that we learn.
03:16We have to relate to something.
03:17We have to identify with something.
03:19We have to be connected to you.
03:21You know, if the chips were down, would I have the will and the courage and the grace and the
03:27wisdom to do the right thing?
03:29I think everybody's got it in them.
03:31It's just whether or not you want to, you know, you want to exploit that aspect of yourself or not.
03:37You can be greater than yourself.
03:40You can defend a cause that is greater than yourself.
03:42All the attributes of that moment gives you to either take the leap of faith to do what is great.
03:51Would we do what he does?
03:53Would we be capable?
03:54And that's why we invest.
03:56And that's, I think, also why we're drawn increasingly to heroes who are flawed.
04:02I love anti-heroes.
04:03I think they're awesome.
04:04My favorite.
04:05If a person has a flaw, as opposed to just being a, this sort of impenetrable, aspirational figure,
04:14then not only are they overcoming external obstacles, they're overcoming internal ones as well.
04:20Underneath rage is vulnerability.
04:24How connected everybody is to the world.
04:26You know, you're not going to, I'm not sure if you're going to buy that big action star.
04:32What will bring intrigue to the storytelling?
04:36What will bring intrigue to the process?
04:38Only human flaw.
04:40The anti-hero has in him something dark.
04:43And that's an acknowledgement that we all have that in us there is something dark.
04:48You watch the imperfections of a hero and you're saying, wow, you know, it's like, it's like me.
04:55You know, people like to relate.
04:56We want to be good, but we want what we want.
04:59I think that makes us want to see heroes who aren't just cardboard cutouts.
05:03We want to see the pain.
05:06We want to understand that people, you know, have unlikable as well as likable qualities.
05:10They're often very ordinary people that are in extraordinary circumstances.
05:16True confidence comes from not caring what the outcome is.
05:21We don't get to choose how we start this life.
05:24We don't get to choose the hand we're dealt.
05:27And what makes you a hero is what you do with that.
05:31And what makes you a hero is what you do with the miracleaciones.
05:33And I keep picking power out.
05:39And I say that when you look at the miracleations,
05:41you know, you can pick up the magic and turn over the miracle when you're dealing with it.
05:41And yes, you may not be able to do the magic.
05:41Now I live to death.
05:45Right and I'm moving on.
05:53That's right.
05:57You do know that today is why.
05:59And here is the That's part of the Christmas tree.
06:03Grazie a tutti.
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