Define Fantasy

>scientific definition of a mode of art
even if you could genuinely come up with one people would deliberately make films that nullify that definition
also do your own fucking homework

Fuck you, do you own homework.

>>86936656
Reminds me when Plato defined man as "featherless bipeds" and the ultimate troll Diogenes plucked a chicken and showed up at the Forum waving it around and proclaiming it a man.

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>>86936607
fiction with themes inspired by fairy tales, folklore, myth, history

>>86936607
Movies starring William Hurt

My definition is not scientific but it works for me.

A fantasy movie is an expensive epic movie that uses lots of special effects and music but is not a war movie or a sci-fi movie

Any movie with elements that couldn't exist in reality, which the movie does not attempt to explain with a scientific rationale.

>>86937761
Good definition but I would switch "scientific rationale" with "styles of industrialized society"

A fantasy movie necessarily has at least one of the following
Elf dwarf orc pixie dragon witch Arab Japanese Chinese

A movie that has one of the following isn't a fantasy
An USA official
A computer program
A gay man (Bromance doesn't count)
Abrahamic God

>>86936724

The Greek philosophers would fucking love it here.

>>86936607
Fantasy is any story told in a setting where the laws of physics include a term for "person", "love", "courage", "faith", or any similar concept. This definition works for every medium.