Armageddon as Oedipal
example · film: Armageddon ·
retold in 5 talks
The asteroid in *Armageddon* is a materialization of the father's wrath; the film is really about Ben Affleck wanting to sleep with Liv Tyler and the father (Bruce Willis) saving the day to restore order.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 5
“It's so clear that it's really a film about Ben Affleck wants to screw Liv Tyler... the asteroid threatening the Earth is just a kind of a materialization of the wrath of the father.”
“The comet threatening to destroy Earth is basically the materialization of the father's fury.”
“The asteroid which threatens the earth just materializes this paternal incestuous fury.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
Oedipal libidinal deadlock (Hollywood)
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objet petit a
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love as catastrophe
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Rudyard Kipling2Steve Jobs2Tadeusz Borowski1Tom Stoppard1Raymond Carver1Robert Epstein1Garry Wills1Colin Farrell1
alongside works
Every retelling 5
The asteroid in Armageddon is a materialization of the father's wrath; the film is really about Ben Affleck wanting to sleep with Liv Tyler and the father (Bruce Willis) saving the day to restore order., illustrating Oedipal libidinal deadlock (Hollywood)
In Armageddon, the world-threatening comet materializes the fury of Bruce Willis's father-character toward Ben Affleck screwing his daughter; the film ends with the father's self-sacrifice and blessing of the couple, resolving the Oedipal conflict., illustrating objet petit a,Hollywood catastrophe as Oedipal story,ideology of cinema
Bruce Willis's fury at Ben Affleck for seducing his daughter materializes as the asteroid threatening Earth; the catastrophe ends when the father accepts the son-in-law and can sacrifice himself, the couple is created, and the threat dissolves., illustrating Hollywood ideology,father motif,incest fantasy,catastrophe saving love
Bruce Willis's father-figure resists his daughter's suitor; the asteroid materializes his incestuous fury, the moment he accepts his daughter's romance, the asteroid is defeated., illustrating production of the couple,Oedipal reading,two-level reading
Officially a disaster film about a comet, Armageddon's true libidinal story is the father's (Bruce Willis) jealousy at his daughter (Liv Tyler) being with another man (Ben Affleck); the father sacrifices himself and blesses the couple, resolving the Oedipal conflict., illustrating libidinal undercurrent,disaster films and Oedipal drama