I’d like to make a movie that starts out typically enough, with a great scourge spreading darkness and evil throughout the land, and the fate of the planet rests on the shoulders of some unlikely hero — a child, a nymph, a baby yoda, something cute and kind and universally lovable. And at the climax of the movie, in the great battle scene, that hero would get killed. That’s it, that’s what I want. I don’t know where it should go from there, maybe the evil forces would simply continue to roll over the weak, maybe some other hero for the good would present themselves. I don’t really care. I just know that as a viewer, I would love to be shocked and heartbroken by seeing the good, pure, innocent hero that we are all used to seeing overcome impossible odds, actually meet a more likely fate. Shit, it could even happen near the start of the movie. See? There are already so many adventurous possibilities, totally ignored by mainstream filmmakers. Cowards.
Isn’t that the plot of the bible?
Well shucks, I guess it is. But that’s no reason for other people not to rattle off some variations on the same theme. Kill more heroes, I say.