A quintessential Dave Mitchell shot.
If you were to cast a movie where all the tried-and-true elements of the whole "Hero With a Thousand Faces" were to be represented by their archetypes, the guy in the pic to the right would not be a bad choice for the Wise Old Man Living in The Cave who gives the Plucky Young Hero the magic sword/knowledge on how to slay the dragon.
There’s a really funny Fractured Fairy Tale just waiting to be made – if you remember those. They were the sort-of interstitials in the old subversive Rocky & Bullwinkle show (yeah, I know, wash the DeNiro movie taste outta your mouth) that would take beloved fairy tales and update them with modern-day snark.
In this case, the Wise Old Man in The Cave would instead live in a split-level Marin County cottage, with a redwood deck and delightful hot tub.