Reading: Mahabharata Part 3

I continued The Mahabharata directed by Peter Brook for the next section. This movie is such a great way to really understand this story.  I think the part of this movie that might be fun to work into my own story is when Duhshasana is having nightmares about the Pandavas wanting vengeance.  It's such a common thing for the antagonist to have guilty and paranoid thoughts about their victims seeking vengeance, so it would be easy to find a parallel to work with.  If I stick with the Avatar theme, there is a part when Azula gets paranoid, but it's not quite right, so I'll need to do more research.


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