Story Structure: Jungle Book
From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters at www.managing-creativity.com
The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon – understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.
The Hero’s Journey:
· Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.
· Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so MSI Megabook GT735-026UA-ABZM824G32BP on.
· Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.
The Hero’s Journey is also a study of repeating patterns in successful stories and screenplays. It is compelling that screenwriters have a higher probability of producing quality work when they mirror the recurring patterns found in successful screenplays.
Story Structure: Jungle Book
FADE IN: Music and scenery of India; the Ordinary World of the jungle.
Meeting the Supernatural Aid / Mentor and the Hero; hero’s back story: Bagheera finds the orphan Mowgli, who is raised by Akela the wolf et al.
Foreshadow of the Adventure: Bagheera knows that one day Mowgli will have to return.
Call to Adventure: Shere Khan has returned and Mowgli must go back to the man village.
Resistance to the Call: Daddy Wolf doesn’t want “his son” to go.
Pushed into the Journey: Bagheera agrees to take Mowgli to the man village.
Developing the Antagonism: Bagheera explains why Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli.
Refusal: Mowgli doesn’t аксессуары телефон Transcend want to leave his Ordinary World.
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