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Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:34:36 2023 No.22241168 [Reply] [Original]

>been alive for 29 years
>literally just figured out setting and genre are not the same

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:42:34 2023 No.22241184 >>22241168 The absolute state of the American English curriculum

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:47:47 2023 No.22241193 >>22241168 Most authors are uncreative enough that there's functionally no difference. Gothic lit? You already know the story takes place in a gothic cathedral

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:48:15 2023 No.22241195 >>22241193 Romanesque > Gothic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:49:16 2023 No.22241196 >genre spooky >setting very spooky

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:50:00 2023 No.22241197 >>22241196 literally 2 spooky 5 me

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:51:00 2023 No.22241198 >>22241193 What about Robocop? That's a western in genre, but in a sci-fi dystopian setting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:52:00 2023 No.22241200 >>22241198 >western in genre Post-western >but in a sci-fi dystopian setting Cage and Candyman had already established Chicago-Detroit as a setting unto itself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:52:26 2023 No.22241201 >>22241168 >me realising Rome and Roma are not different places in Italy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:53:03 2023 No.22241202 >no it's not a western it's a hecking post modern meta ironic neo revisionist western and they're totally different because uhhhhhhhh it's dark

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:55:28 2023 No.22241206 >>22241202 >acid western >zapata western >meat pie western They're all heckin valid chud

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:55:33 2023 No.22241207 >>22241202 Post western arises when the "township" itself is the source of evil. See Unforgiven as the apotheosis of the post-western.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:56:24 2023 No.22241210 >>22241206 >meat pie western kek what the fuck is this, like an aussie western? >oi cunt give us ya fucking kangaroos or we'll glass ya cunt >no we don't have any six shooters

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:57:41 2023 No.22241212 >>22241210 >kek what the fuck is this, like an aussie western? Time to watch Sunday too far away and wake in fright.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:59:41 2023 No.22241215 >>22241212 There is quite literally no difference between Wake In Fright and your average saturday in this shithole queensland town I hate australia but every other country is too scary

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:59:43 2023 No.22241216 >>22241212 I will add The Proposition to your list

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 08:12:39 2023 No.22241252 setting would be the location like say, new york. genre would be like horror or scifi. what actually confuses me more is the difference between mood and tone

>>	Anonymouṡ Sun Jul 9 08:16:03 2023 No.22241254 File: 548 KB, 274x351, Lum Dance.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22241168 "The concrete was genre. If I didn't pull my feet out soon I was going to have to remain there."