Power of Film - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Archetypal Story
The hero's journey is a metaphorical mapping of the mind, the psyche in development. All of these things are theatrical dramatizations in the inner world of our feelings and our minds. It seems impossible to understand how, with only eight notes in an octave, we don't simply run out of music - but just as tones give rise to semitones, time signatures, tempo and style auto content. So we start to see that a very simple pattern contains within it the possibility of endless permutations. Feed in a different kind of flaw, reward or punish the characters in a variety of ways, and you create a different type of story.
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