“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […] “It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” Rocky Balboa Today we’re going from The Rock to Rocky and it happened very organically. Yesterday’s post, Hitting Rock Bottom with The Rock, touched on Dwayne Johnson’s hard times after he left the University of […]
Nov
11
2015
‘Concussion’—Pulling No PunchesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If you’ve been involved in professional football or even football at any level, you can’t not be interested in this movie.” Concussion writer/director Peter Landsesman Comingsoon.net interview “I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. When I was writing and shooting the movie, the NFL wasn’t a single consideration, in […]
Nov
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2015
Hitting Rock Bottom with The RockPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The first rock bottom I hit was out of college where I worked for ten years from the time I started playing football at 14 years old to the time I was 23 and did not get drafted. Played in the CFL for approximately 200 bucks a week Canadian. I got cut from the team […]
Nov
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2015
‘Concussion”—Pulling No PunchesPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“If you’ve been involved in professional football or even football at any level, you can’t not be interested in this movie.” Concussion writer/director Peter Landsesman Comingsoon.net interview “I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL. When I was writing and shooting the movie, the NFL wasn’t a single consideration, in […] |
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