The Hero's Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 + stage template.
Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriter. This is the template you must master if you want to have success in the craft.
THERE ARE ONLY A STORY
The Hero's Journey:
a) Attempts to tapinto unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.
b) gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid-term and so on.
c) Are you a specific procedure for compiling and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving relaxations, of which there are usually four).
d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story. This is why stories such asAlien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Midnight Cowboy (1969), American Beauty (1999), The Graduate (1967) and many others (all deconstructed at the URL below) appear to be different, but all are constructed, almost sequence by order in the same way.
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ABRIDGED TIP (S):
New World ***** *****
Often the hero has just come (is banished from the ancient world) into a new world. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), both Ennis and Jack Brokeback easy reachMountain.
***** ***** Loop
Links to the beginning of history until the end ... not necessarily the first scene to the last .. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), we see the landscape of Wyoming. Represents the closing of the story, but not necessarily the solution to all problems. Disappears in Star Wars (1977), Vader, is not defeated, however.
