![]() ![]() First, you setup your hero (or heroine) and his story, then you throw something at him that causes conflict and propels him into a whole heap of trouble. ![]() How To Structure Your Screenplay Using The Hero's JourneyĮvery story has a beginning, a middle and an end. That’s because the Hero’s Journey is a character-driven plot structure focusing on the protagonist undergoing a transformational change, and this can be interpreted and incorporated into pretty much every story. Even if the stages don’t play out in exactly same order as they are listed, they're still present. Once you get familiar with the cyclical stages of the Hero’s Journey, the plot structure becomes apparent, to some degree, in nearly every movie you see. A contemporary version of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, the "Hero’s Journey" is an archetypal plot structure that forms the basis of almost every movie in om Star Wars to The Lion King, and across all genres. That's because its forumla for structure and character development and transformation has been utilized - and sometimes instinctively and unconsciously by the writer without them intentionally analyzing the structural paradigm - to tell a cinematic story in an emotionally satisfying way. ![]() The Hero’s Journey in Popular Hollywood FilmsĪs an avid movie-goer you will most likely be aware of the "Monomyth" and perhaps without even realising it. ![]()
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