An epic is defined as a long narrative story celebrating the feats of a traditional hero. Throughout history epics such as Beowulf have been well known. Directors have been known to take qualities of an epic and place them in movies such as Braveheart in order to express the theme. In Terry Gillian?s film, The Fisher King, he uses certain characteristics of an epic and ignores others in order to keep the movie more …showed first 75 words of 1541 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1541 total…materialistic objects to the end where he has achieved true happiness by becoming friends with Perry and finding true love with Anne. Gillian shows the theme of spiritual values as what brings true happiness, not the materials that one may posses. Epics have been well known throughout history and have been included in many works of literature, where now day?s directors have taken characteristics of epics in order to have movies contain more significance.