Hero’s Journey: 100 Greatest Films Deconstructed - Wild Bunch (1969)
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The Коломенское: колыбель архитектуры Hero’s Journey is фотоаппараты панасоник 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.
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The Wild Bunch (1969) - Hero’s Journey [basic deconstruction]
FADE IN: meeting the (anti) heroes: the wild bunch freeze frames.
New World: riding into town.
Developing the (anti) heroes: sacrificing the people in the bank; shooting their way out.
Meeting the Shape Shifter: Pike glimpses Thornton.
Forced onto a Journey: forced out of town by Thornton et al.
Developing the antagonism: Thornton’s dumb ass men and Harrigan.
Developing the heroes: Pike kills one of his own; you wanna give him a decent burial.
Developing the Shape Shifter: Thornton’s reasons for working with Harrigan.
Time Pressure: 30 days to get Pike or back in jail.
New World from afar: nothing Lindo about it; just looks like more of easygo 410 Texas as far as I’m concerned.
Marker of the Crossing: the river.
World of the Supernatural Aid: by the well.
Supernatural Aid: the old man waiting.
Developing characters and relationships: I either lead this bunch or end it right now.
Magical Gift: steel washers, not gold.
Supernatural Aid: who are “they?”; railroad men, bounty hunters.
Trial: come on boys, don’t kill me; easy boys.
Developing characters and relationships: Talking about whores.
Hero’s Status: What kind
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