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They said 40, not fucking 70
Would read a book about a 40-50 year old that has to leave his job to slay the dragon and save the world.
Not too far off. The main character is a venerable 51.
In 1930’s Britain, the average lifespan of an Englishman was 60. Hobbits had an average lifespan of 100. So a 51 year old Bilbo was the same as a 30 year old Englishman.
Sounds like Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian, all right.
Ah ha ha gotta reread those gems!
Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they’re leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.
The classic hero arc is that the “to be hero” don’t want to go, but is more or less forced, so that fits perfectly with a family!
Also, 40-50 year olds discovering magic would be a rare or never seen in a film/book.
Have you tried Kings of the Wyld?
Its about an older band of adventures getting back together.
I can’t be the only one that immediately thought of The Blues Brothers, right?
Yeah I think thats a good match up, if ever there was a film that caught the DnD party vibe without being a DnD film
Bilbo was 50
Not a book, but it’s thematically similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrX_u2no6OA
Ignore the Amazon Prime garbage. It was a Mondo Media production, which was the main reason I ended up watching it.
And a few years later his nephew is saved by an 80yo geezer.
You could swap the main character from how a realist hero saved a kingdom to a 55 year old bureaucrat and nothing in the story would change. The marriage to the princess would be creepy though.
That’s not always true. In LoTR Frodo is 50 and Aragorn is 67.
Aragorn is functionally 25
Obviously she’s never heard of Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Hoard!
One reason I loved Ace Attorney, it at least got a few steps away from the “high school hero” tropes of everything else made in Japan.
They eventually retread that issue with Apollo and Athena, but they were there for a bit…
They still felt the need to make the protagonist a fresh out of school lawyer. It wasn’t that far off.
This is why Pluribus is refreshing (though I haven’t finished it and also it’s just ok otherwise)
Books maybe not, but it’s become a film trope for sure. Taken, Wick, and Nobody comes to mind.
Oh, Taken put me off action movies for a good while. I don’t even know if I ever bothered to watch it I was so irritated by the trailer.
Not just the movie, but Liam Neson?
It’s like Military Aged Male only means something somewhere else.
hhhn it’s been a while since i’ve last seen it but i don’t think he did anything crazy in the first one, just being sneaky
Nothing like the Taken 3 scene of him jumping a fence from 19 different angles, each shown for less than 1 second to hide the fact that Liam Neeson absolutely cannot jump a fence to save his life? I think that was the craziest stunt on the entire trilogy. TIL, in cinematography it is called a “blender cut”. Because it looks like they just put all the clips on blender and stitched them at random.
Yah don’t think anything was that bad. Not like Rambo or anything.
What there are tons of older hero’s in films. Mission impossible fast and furious any Schwarzenegger movie I men’s I could go in and on.
