Hero's Journey (Monomyth) is the template on which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based. In fact, all one hundredth 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 screenwriters. This is the template you must master if you want to succeed in the trades.
[terminology most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) The Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) on Thelma & Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979 )].
there is only one story
Hero's Journey:
) is trying to use the unconscious expectations the audience about the story and how it should be told.
b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.
c) Gives you a tangible process for building and commissioning of dissonance (establishing and achieving catharses, some of which are usually four ).
d) Gives you a universal structural template on which you can superimpose your situation story. That is why stories such as Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Midnight Cowboy (1969), American Beauty (1999), Graduate (1967) and many others (all deconstructed at the URL below) appear to be different, but they are all constructed, almost sequence sequence, in the same way.
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***** near death experience ***
veering off the path puts the hero in grave danger. [This is not the same birth through near death that follows Forfeiture of the Sword]. In Star Wars (1977), Bantha People almost killed Luke. In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf can be killed before it gets to Grandma's house.
Battle. It is not unusual for the hero of the battle pass or trial, or encounter obstacles or conflict. The City Slickers (1991), Mitchell et al have done in the cowboys. That is cause for Supernatural help magically appear and show his (or her) jurisdiction.
Supernatural help guards. As the hero is unconscious on the road to meet Supernatural help, struggle, or trial can be viewed as a block Guardians of Supernatural help. In The Incredibles (2004), Mr. Incredible is that past security before he meets Edna.
***** not going back ***
Hero is warned or it is obvious that past this place (the First Threshold), will not be going back. The Matrix (1999), Neo has to choose between red and blue pills, there is no way back if he decides to proceed. In The Godfather (1972), where Michael Corleone shoots Sollozo and Captain McCluskey, no return. In Raging Bull (1980), the physical transition - not going back - a marriage Vickie
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