Characters are universal for a reason. There is a reason we all feel some connection when Frodo sits reading his book, looking beyond the Shire. Or when Harry sits under the stairs thinking of leaving his miserable life with the Dursleys behind. Or when Luke Skywalker looks out at the twin suns of Tatooine wishing to escape his dusty farming life for adventure.
Some characters are built to relate to us in this way, no matter where you are in life you always have some form of dream of change, it's something at the core of the human brain, and film has a direct line to this. Like a big mining tunnel. Of emotion.
Anyway.
In a similar vein, these characters, because of their universality (is that a word, spell check isn't tripping me up on it so I think it is) become iconic because each of us feels a certain sense of ownership over them. All fans of Batman have their favourite actor, each Star Wars fan a favourite character.
As a simple way of exploring this idea of legacy and iconicity (that one can't be a word surely, I’m unstoppable) I started making these rudimentary time maps to start illustrating how different characters have evolved drastically different ways over the years.
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