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Member You - Screenplay Structure: Hero's Journey and Taxi Driver (1976)
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Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travi
There are two type of people in the world. Those who see the glass half empty and those who see it half full. This experience was heightened for me when I had lunch with an old colleague from work and he began to complain about how only rich people could start a business. I thought he was joking.As I sat and listened he ranted for almost ten minutes giving all the reasons he could not start his own business and get out of the rat race. He talked about the high cost of start ups, franchising and real estate development. When he finally came up for air I decided to ask simply ask him one question. Mark, “Have you every asked yourself what kind of low cost businesses with hig
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.
Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.
The Hero's Journey:
a) Attempts to tap into 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 point and so on.
c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.
Sample Movie Deconstructed: Taxi Driver (1976)
Fade In: context: a cab in the city.
Introducing the hero: looking around the city.
Crossing into the First Threshold: walking through the door.
Threshold Guardian: the taxi office boss.
Back story and capabilities needed of the Hero: we learn about Travis; he was a marine; he can't sleep nights; low intelligence: "what's moonlighting."
Foreshadow / reference to the Supernatural Aid: Wizard in the background.
Hero in his Ordinary World: Travis is his apartment.
Reference to the Inner Challenge: wash away the trash and the garbage...
Nee Creatures in the First Threshold: Travis driving a cab now; the nightlife.
References to the Inner Challenge: the car wash; washing the cab; cleanliness etc.
Conflict in the Inner Cave: Travis rejected by the girl in the Kiss and Tell.
Inner Cave: watching the porn movie.
Physical Separation: seeing Betsy for the first time.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy in the office.
Foreshadow of the Transformation: Travis watching Betsy.
Meeting the Supernatural Aid: Wizard et al in the caf?.
Magical Gift: the offer of guns.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy and Tom in the office.
Trial 1: Travis asks Betsy to go on a date.
Trial 2: Travis and Betsy meet in the coffee shop.
Resistance to Trail 3: Travis calls Betsy, she resists and then agrees.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict: Palantine in the car. Referencing the Inner Challenge: Travis says that a President should "clean up this place."
Foreshadow if the Final Conflict: Iris tries to get in the car and escape.
Trial 3: Travis takes Betsy to see a porn movie; she walks away.
Journey to the Sword: Alienation for the antihero; the flowers; stomach cancer; feeling lonely.
Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travis
Many complain about the fact that Chinese companies often steal American products and re-engineer them and send them around the world to be sold in mass. In fact you do not have to look very hard in the United States on retail shelves to see knock off products of such. Many are made as inexpensively as possible, often with cheaper and inferior parts and brought over by the shipload. You cannot blame retailers for buying these products at a fifth of the wholesale price and wishing to resale them for just under the average retail price to the consumer. But each item sold that way which has been stolen or copied means fewer products are made here and that is upsetting to those who work
c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.
Sample Movie Deconstructed: Taxi Driver (1976)
Fade In: context: a cab in the city.
Introducing the hero: looking around the city.
Crossing into the First Threshold: walking through the door.
Threshold Guardian: the taxi office boss.
Back story and capabilities needed of the Hero: we learn about Travis; he was a marine; he can't sleep nights; low intelligence: "what's moonlighting."
Foreshadow / reference to the Supernatural Aid: Wizard in the background.
Hero in his Ordinary World: Travis is his apartment.
Reference to the Inner Challenge: wash away the trash and the garbage...
Nee Creatures in the First Threshold: Travis driving a cab now; the nightlife.
References to the Inner Challenge: the car wash; washing the cab; cleanliness etc.
Conflict in the Inner Cave: Travis rejected by the girl in the Kiss and Tell.
Inner Cave: watching the porn movie.
Physical Separation: seeing Betsy for the first time.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy in the office.
Foreshadow of the Transformation: Travis watching Betsy.
Meeting the Supernatural Aid: Wizard et al in the caf?.
Magical Gift: the offer of guns.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy and Tom in the office.
Trial 1: Travis asks Betsy to go on a date.
Trial 2: Travis and Betsy meet in the coffee shop.
Resistance to Trail 3: Travis calls Betsy, she resists and then agrees.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict: Palantine in the car. Referencing the Inner Challenge: Travis says that a President should "clean up this place."
Foreshadow if the Final Conflict: Iris tries to get in the car and escape.
Trial 3: Travis takes Betsy to see a porn movie; she walks away.
Journey to the Sword: Alienation for the antihero; the flowers; stomach cancer; feeling lonely.
Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travi
Think about the people you help in your business. Where do they congregate, where can you find them? For instance, I work with small business owners who want to get more clients. A place this group frequently visits is bank offices to take care of financial transactions and to discuss specific issues with banking officers.Every time I visit a bank I sit in the waiting area and read one of my brochures. When an officer is ready for me, I place my brochure on the table with all the other reading material. I figure I'm providing a service for the bank by providing materials for their customers for free. Sometimes I visit other banks and read my literature. If a banking officer a
Reference to the Inner Challenge: wash away the trash and the garbage...
Nee Creatures in the First Threshold: Travis driving a cab now; the nightlife.
References to the Inner Challenge: the car wash; washing the cab; cleanliness etc.
Conflict in the Inner Cave: Travis rejected by the girl in the Kiss and Tell.
Inner Cave: watching the porn movie.
Physical Separation: seeing Betsy for the first time.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy in the office.
Foreshadow of the Transformation: Travis watching Betsy.
Meeting the Supernatural Aid: Wizard et al in the caf?.
Magical Gift: the offer of guns.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy and Tom in the office.
Trial 1: Travis asks Betsy to go on a date.
Trial 2: Travis and Betsy meet in the coffee shop.
Resistance to Trail 3: Travis calls Betsy, she resists and then agrees.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict: Palantine in the car. Referencing the Inner Challenge: Travis says that a President should "clean up this place."
Foreshadow if the Final Conflict: Iris tries to get in the car and escape.
Trial 3: Travis takes Betsy to see a porn movie; she walks away.
Journey to the Sword: Alienation for the antihero; the flowers; stomach cancer; feeling lonely.
Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travi
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Magical Gift: the offer of guns.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: Betsy and Tom in the office.
Trial 1: Travis asks Betsy to go on a date.
Trial 2: Travis and Betsy meet in the coffee shop.
Resistance to Trail 3: Travis calls Betsy, she resists and then agrees.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict: Palantine in the car. Referencing the Inner Challenge: Travis says that a President should "clean up this place."
Foreshadow if the Final Conflict: Iris tries to get in the car and escape.
Trial 3: Travis takes Betsy to see a porn movie; she walks away.
Journey to the Sword: Alienation for the antihero; the flowers; stomach cancer; feeling lonely.
Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travi
A lot of times when I start writing a blog post I only get part way through it when I get side tracked. Or, I have an idea for a post that I don’t want to forget but I’m not in the mood to write the whole thing. I’ve been using a Word Doc to keep my notes and ideas in, but it has started getting long and it is a pain to keep a current copy between work (If my boss is reading this I only blog on my breaks) and my house. Sure there are a lot of options to remedy that. I could email it to myself or use a USB drive, but then I have to remember to take that extra step at the end. I also tried using Blogger’s New Post option and just saving my partial posts as drafts, but I kept accidenta
Seizing the Sword: being excluded; Travis is thrown out of the office.
Rebirth through a Near Death Experience: Scorsese in the car; he's going to kill his cheating wife.
Reward: Travis has made a lot of money.
Atonement with the Father: meeting with the Wizard; Travis is "really down…" "…just wants to go out and do something…" "…thinking bad things…"
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Palantine on TV.
Pulled Back / Reminder of the Romantic Challenge / Reminder of the Transformation: driving past Betsy.
Foreshadow of the Final Conflict / Pulled Forward: Travis bumps into Iris.
Apotheosis: loneliness has chased Travis all his life; it cannot be escaped.
Ultimate Boon: there is a change. Travis buys the guns.
Refusal of the Return: Travis gets fit. He won't destroy his body anymore.
Resisting the Pull Back to the Old Self: hesitantly watching porn again.
Building the New Self: Travis gets expert with guns.
Magic Flight: pursued by the Secret Service.
Pushing toward the New Self / Pushing toward the Final Conflict: "you talking to me…" sequence.
Becoming the New Self: killing the supermarket robber.
Reminded of the Old Self: watching TV.
Pulled toward the Final Conflict: Travis drives away from Palantine's speech.
Preparing for the Final Conflict: "don't worry about me…"; the card sequence.
Rescue from Without: throwing over the TV; Travis can't resist the pull of the Old Self.
Crossing the Return Threshold: Travis meets with Iris, Harvey Keitel et al; the bedroom scene.
Resisting the Master of Two Worlds / Final Conflict: Travis and Iris having breakfast; she doesn't want to go back.
Developing the Antagonism: Iris and Sport.
Preparing for the Final Conflict: shoe shining; sharpening the knife.
Saying Goodbye to the Old Self: burning the flowers.
New Self:: a Mohican Travis.
Final Conflict: Failing to kill Palantine's.
Final Conflict: rescuing Iris.
Freedom to Live: Medal: the letter from Iris' parents.
Freedom to Live: Inner Challenge Conquered: Travis stands alongside his buddies; Outer Challenge conquered: heard that Palantine got selected, that's OK; Romantic Challenge conquered: Betsy calls on Travis.
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