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02-09-2007, 01:53 AM
|  | a.k.a Madge Spammer | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panama
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Originally Posted by MichelleAntonia but, thing is- that IS the realistic approach. it seems like it's rigid, but she's right- ANY and EVERY good story follows those 12 steps, there's no such thing as a story we as know it today that DOESNT. the beauty of it is that you dont even notice, but you sense it. if any of those steps are missing from a story, the audience/reader knows it, whether consciously or not...if you dont think you notice, it's always that "something" that you cant put your finger on that's wrong with a story.
campbell's hero journey is amazing in that way, its as if it was discovered, a natural "order" to every story that is in tune with something primitive in the human being, and in life. it's like math- it's an order to numbers, to the universe, that makes so many things around us make sense and gives us the ability to make sense of chaos. same goes for the hero's journey, it makes seemingly random events in the "story" of a character make sense, it puts them in an order which can only be called a true STORY. | I felt there was something off I couldn't put my finger on when I saw Eyes Wide Shut and a clockwork orange.
I just remembered Without A Doubt by Marcia Clark, and it's a real life thing and I think I can see the twelve steps in it. It was such a great journey. I think I'm spotting them in this book about Marie Antoinette. Am I nuts?  |
02-09-2007, 02:21 AM
|  | i love you zizou. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Everything Counts
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Originally Posted by HighClassHo I just remembered Without A Doubt by Marcia Clark, and it's a real life thing and I think I can see the twelve steps in it. It was such a great journey. I think I'm spotting them in this book about Marie Antoinette. Am I nuts? | no way! even biographies are written as stories, with a beginning, middle and end that fits into it. the life of the subject is their "journey", which somehow magically can be fit into that structure. surely some vary a little bit on the exact and specific order, but it's still there. |
02-09-2007, 11:43 AM
| | a.k.a Madge Spammer | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panama
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Originally Posted by MichelleAntonia no way! even biographies are written as stories, with a beginning, middle and end that fits into it. the life of the subject is their "journey", which somehow magically can be fit into that structure. surely some vary a little bit on the exact and specific order, but it's still there. |
but what I meant it's that it's not made up, no one created it, it was the life of Marcia and it fit into that structure. |
02-09-2007, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by HighClassHo but what I meant it's that it's not made up, no one created it, it was the life of Marcia and it fit into that structure. | That's a large part of how the structure came to be. It's not random.
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02-09-2007, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Wildwoman That's a large part of how the structure came to be. It's not random. | I agree. |
02-13-2007, 08:26 AM
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| | | The film was utter shite. I did enjoy the book even though the ending was far fetched. Id carry on reading it!!
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02-19-2007, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by inside_solution The film was utter shite. I did enjoy the book even though the ending was far fetched. Id carry on reading it!! | I didn't find anything remotely enjoyable in the writing and I didn't give a rats ass about what could happen to Bucky. I guess with me, I didn't connect. I think it sucks. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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