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RE: The Spark + Unbewusstes - Finish The Story Contest - Week #66 @bananafish

in #finishthestory • 6 years ago (edited)

“You’re made of metal,” Hogarth reasons, “but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul.”
Memories return to the Iron Giant, including
his previous existence as an alien killing machine ... “I am a gun,”
...He was a gun—or, more to the point, a weapon of mass destruction—but now he’s developed a conscience, and guns don’t feel guilt.
Everyone Misunderstood Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant: It’s Not About Guns. It’s About Sin.
By SAM ADAMS

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    P.S. from the Slate.com article:

    Bird has said that the question that prompted The Iron Giant was “What if a gun had a soul?” The movie’s answer is that it wouldn’t be a gun anymore.

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      Interesting Article.

      I read 'the iron man' by Ted Hughes as a kid, although I barely remember it.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Man_(novel

      I think 'the iron giant' may be an American interpretation of the same story!? Not sure, maybe partly inspired by Hughes' children's story that explored themes around war and conflict.

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        Iron Man,

        a giant "metal man" of unknown origin who rains destruction on the countryside by eating industrial farm equipment, before befriending a small boy and defending the world from a dragon from outer space. Expanding the narrative beyond a criticism of warfare and inter-human conflict, Hughes later wrote a sequel, The Iron Woman (1993), describing retribution based on environmental themes related to pollution.

        Not to mention all these movies and books about androids and how to define "human" and "soul." I need to read the Ted Hughes novel! It sounds like the source of Iron Giant. Then again, Neil Gaiman had a book with a boy wizard and his owl that J.K. Rowling insists she never saw. I've had story ideas I failed to write or publish and later someone else had the same thing. The radio was invented by at least three men unbeknownst to each other, but only one of them is now known as the father of radio.
        I'll bet you've read The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (1888). Hey, Iron Giant, similar theme...

        A giant, who finds children from the village playing in his beautiful garden, chases them away and builds a high wall around his estate. Then Spring leaves the garden and Winter returns and remains there permanently until the children manage to slip through a hole in the wall. Spring then returns. The giant mellows and allows the children to play in his garden whenever they want.

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          Ohhh wow, I finally read farther into the wiki article. What a great story!

          • In 1989, guitarist Pete Townshend, from the rock band The Who, released a rock opera adaptation, The Iron Man: A Musical.
          • (Americans) changed the title to The Iron Giant, and internal mentions of the metal man changed to iron giant, to avoid confusion with the Marvel Comics character Iron Man.
          • "Hogarth, a local boy, lures the Iron Man to the trap...."
            But from there, all resemblance to the movie ends.
          • The stand-off sounds stupendous!
          • the dragon reveals that he is a peaceful "star spirit" ... In his own life, he was a singer of the "music of the spheres"; the harmony of his kind that keeps the cosmos in balance in stable equilibrium.
            @crescendoofpeace, this is the kind of story you'd know all about. :)
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