MUST READ BOOK
ON STORYTELLING!
When I wrote my first screenplay, I was pretty confident in my writing skills. I’d been on the editorial staff of my school and college newspapers, won several competitions and really thought I was the boss. No surprise than, I had very little success with my first screenplay!
There are a million books out there in the market about how to write a screenplay and I read a bunch of them but they didn’t really help. If I had to suggest one single book however, I would recommend Joseph Campbell’s ‘The Hero’s Journey’. This book has such an interesting story!
Years after the book came out a studio-executive named Chris Vogler working at Disney read the book and using the book as a guide broke down the journey of a Hero into a seven-stage plot point journey. He broke down the stages and circulated it within Disney. It became a rage! If you read the book or the original memo linked here Chris Vogler Memo you will find some of your absolute favorite hero’s and books have followed this breakdown.
Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Given below are two sets of stories based on the book The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell. I found it thrilling to discover how the biggest blockbusters were based on a certain formula and how it worked every time!
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