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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
Screenwriting
True or false?
"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim
Lois
Lois
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" oft-repeated maxim[/nq] In my opinion, forget the maxims. I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm. somewhere"
- " oft-repeated maxim[/nq] In my opinion, forget the maxims.
- I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm.
- somewhere"
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[nq:1]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
In my opinion, forget the maxims. I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm. Stories aren't "paint by number."
(This is probably going to be a loong thread.)
RonB
"There's a stor
In my opinion, forget the maxims. I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm. Stories aren't "paint by number."
(This is probably going to be a loong thread.)
RonB
"There's a stor
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[nq:1]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim Lois[/nq]
There might be some natty way to distill all stories down to a maxim but, although most good stories appeal to some universal, there are an infinite number of ways to tell them.
There's also this one...
"There are only two stories: humans inhumanity to humans, and a p
There might be some natty way to distill all stories down to a maxim but, although most good stories appeal to some universal, there are an infinite number of ways to tell them.
There's also this one...
"There are only two stories: humans inhumanity to humans, and a p
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[nq:2]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
[nq:1]In my opinion, forget the maxims. I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm. Stories aren't "paint by number." (This is probably going to be a loong thread.)[/nq]
The maxim is fundamental
[nq:1]In my opinion, forget the maxims. I've seen too many people twist reality into knots trying to make an existing story fit into the "hero's journey" paradigm. Stories aren't "paint by number." (This is probably going to be a loong thread.)[/nq]
The maxim is fundamental
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[nq:1]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
****! I just wrote 120 pages where "the stranger" goes on a journey. And before that, 120 pages where "the hero" comes to town.
(I can't ever get that right)
Paulo Joe Jingy
Sometimes some things just ain't right.
****! I just wrote 120 pages where "the stranger" goes on a journey. And before that, 120 pages where "the hero" comes to town.
(I can't ever get that right)
Paulo Joe Jingy
Sometimes some things just ain't right.
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[nq:1]Even Robert McKee, the author of the three act fatwa "Story" is keen to note that his way is only one way of doing things and plenty of films do it differently.[/nq]
McKee emphatically does not propound the three-act structure as the only way, the desirable way or even the way he recommends. You're mixing him up with Syd Field, I think.
If only those who dream about Holly
McKee emphatically does not propound the three-act structure as the only way, the desirable way or even the way he recommends. You're mixing him up with Syd Field, I think.
If only those who dream about Holly
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[nq:1]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
Why the two stories shouldn't be mixed.
"Watch yerself, mister, that stranger that come to town is shooting up everthing in his path. Too bad our hero just went on that there journey."
Paulo Joe Jingy
Sometimes some things just ain't right.
Why the two stories shouldn't be mixed.
"Watch yerself, mister, that stranger that come to town is shooting up everthing in his path. Too bad our hero just went on that there journey."
Paulo Joe Jingy
Sometimes some things just ain't right.
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:2]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
[nq:1]****! I just wrote 120 pages where "the stranger" goes on a journey.[/nq]
Don't laugh. I had a three-month battle with a producer who hired me to develop a series where a stranger did, in fact, go on journey. Every episode a new stranger. Finally
[nq:2]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
[nq:1]****! I just wrote 120 pages where "the stranger" goes on a journey.[/nq]
Don't laugh. I had a three-month battle with a producer who hired me to develop a series where a stranger did, in fact, go on journey. Every episode a new stranger. Finally
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[nq:1]"There are only two stories: a hero goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town." oft-repeated maxim[/nq]
False.
Unless you define your terms so broadly that they become meaningless.
There's a nugget of truth in that saying, however, which is that a story is what happens when the status quo changes.
A hero going on a journey is doing something different from his
False.
Unless you define your terms so broadly that they become meaningless.
There's a nugget of truth in that saying, however, which is that a story is what happens when the status quo changes.
A hero going on a journey is doing something different from his
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