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Douglas Adams once said something, answering a question from a fan about whether Arthur Dent was a āheroā, and whether the Hitchhiker stories were āgaily whimsicalā or cynical. The whole thing won't fit here (see: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/) but quoting the main part:
> I suspect there is a cultural divide at work here. In England our heroes tend to be characters who either have, or come to realise that they have, no control over their lives whatsoever ā Pilgrim, Gulliver, Hamlet, Paul Pennyfeather (from Decline and Fall), Tony Last (from A Handful of Dust). We celebrate our defeats and our withdrawals ā the Battle of Hastings, Dunkirk, almost any given test match. There was a wonderful book published, oh, about twenty years ago I think, by Stephen Pile called the Book of Heroic Failures. It was staggeringly huge bestseller in England and sank with heroic lack of trace in the U.S. Stephen explained this to me by saying that you cannot make jokes about failure in the States. Itās like cancer, it just isnāt funny at any level. In England, though, for some reason itās the thing we love most. So Arthur may not seem like much of a hero to Americans ā he doesnāt have any stock options, he doesnāt have anything to exchange high fives about round the water-cooler. But to the English, he is a hero. Terrible things happen to him, he complains about it a bit quite articulately, so we can really feel it along with him - then calms down and has a cup of tea. My kind of guy!
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> Iāve hit a certain amount of difficulty over the years in explaining this in Hollywood. Iām often asked āYes, but what are his goals?ā to which I can only respond, well, I think heād just like all this to stop, really. Itās been a hard sell.