Here are two perspectives on writing and performing from the book Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks (via Stephanie Palmer’s Good in a Room blog): “People quit because it’s really hard. It’s hard not to have a house, hard not to have money, hard not to have insurance, […]
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Archive for November, 2015
Nov
26
2015
 
Happy Thanksgiving from Alice’s RestaurantPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaJust in case you’ve never heard the entire 18-minute version of Alice’s Resturant, here’s Arlo Gutherie’s story about “stupidity” set around real life events that happened Thanksgiving time in Massachusetts. Scott W. Smith Today my wife and I celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We met in an elevator in Burbank, California and married in a covered bridge in Vail, Colorado, and have experienced many of the ups and downs of any relationship that has endured 30 years. I put together 30 pictures that symbolized the sweeping overview of […] “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell Related posts: The Call to Adventure The Hero’s Adventure ‘Star Wars’ & The Four Functions of Mythology Scott W. Smith “We go out and we see a great hero’s journey movie it’s that impulse within us, that seed of potential, that wants to be actualized, that’s being talked to during those movies, and being whispered to, ‘It’s time for you to do that.’ That’s the story here. That’s what it’s all about.’” From the documentary […]
Nov
19
2015
‘Star Wars’ & The Four Functions of MythologyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’m telling an old myth in a new way. That’s how you pass down the meat and potatoes of your society to the next generation.” George Lucas on creating Star Wars “Mythology teaches you what’s behind literature and arts, it teaches you about your own life…Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human […] “The Call to Adventure sets the story rolling by disrupting the comfort of the Hero’s Ordinary World, presenting a challenge or quest that must be undertaken. The Call throws the Ordinary World off balance, and establishes the stakes involved if the challenge is rejected. Often delivered by Herald archetype, the Call to Adventure, can take […] “Even in popular novels, the main character is a hero or heroine who has found or done something beyond the normal range of achievement and experience. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself…The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or […]
Nov
16
2015
Hitting Rock Bottom as a TrampolinePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“in some way in every story, heroes face death or something like it: their greatest fears, the failure of an enterprise, the end of relationship, the death of an old personality.” Christopher Vogler The Writer’s Journey, page 181 Last week I wrote posts about Dwayne Johnson (Hitting Rock Bottom with The Rock), Sylvester Stallone (The Rocky […] “The road to success isn’t paved with gold—99 percent of the time it isn’t paved at all.” Photographer/Author/Educator Chris Orwig The Creative Fight Because my mom was an art teacher, I was aware of the creative fight from an early age. Before I was ten I was fascinated by Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, but perhaps […] |
