Epic films survive for a different reason than most classics. While scale gets them in the door, it’s never alone enough to keep them alive. And therefore, the ones people keep carrying with them are the ones that take all that size, war, history, landscape, spectacle, and then pin something painfully intimate inside it: grief, vanity, sacrifice, obsession, revenge, survival, the terrible cost of wanting to become larger than an ordinary life.
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