Dan Harmon is a driven man. Early in his career, the creator of "Community" and "Rick and Morty" was so obsessed with nailing down the basic elements of a successful screenplay that, rather than rely on the old structural guides hammered out by storytelling gurus like Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler, he meticulously analyzed films he believed to be perfect (e.g. "Die Hard") and emerged with the eight-step "story circle." It is now his tried-and-true method of writing, one that he preaches to writers who get staffed on his finely crafted shows. As anyone who's watched the peak seasons...
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- 7/22/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
The Heroine With 1,001 Faces author Maria Tatar with Anne-Katrin Titze: “1,001 captures not just an infinite number of possibilities but also the singularity, the magnificence of the heroine.”
In the first instalment of my conversation with Maria Tatar on her latest book, The Heroine With 1,001 Faces, we discuss Joseph Campbell’s Hero with A Thousand Faces; the Arabian Nights and volunteering heroines such as Scheherazade, Beauty, and The Hunger Games’s Katniss Everdeen; the Bluebeard tales; Neil Gaiman; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Finding Your Roots and the Talking Book; Toni Morrison and listening to the voice of the ancestor; Christopher Vogler’s The Writer's Journey and Michael Schulz’s screenplay for Karin Brandauer’s Aschenputtel; Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary Babi Yar. Context and the number 33,771; Astrid Lindgren and Angela Carter and what should not be dismissed; Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morningstar; Stephen King’s upcoming novel Fairy Tale; a...
In the first instalment of my conversation with Maria Tatar on her latest book, The Heroine With 1,001 Faces, we discuss Joseph Campbell’s Hero with A Thousand Faces; the Arabian Nights and volunteering heroines such as Scheherazade, Beauty, and The Hunger Games’s Katniss Everdeen; the Bluebeard tales; Neil Gaiman; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Finding Your Roots and the Talking Book; Toni Morrison and listening to the voice of the ancestor; Christopher Vogler’s The Writer's Journey and Michael Schulz’s screenplay for Karin Brandauer’s Aschenputtel; Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary Babi Yar. Context and the number 33,771; Astrid Lindgren and Angela Carter and what should not be dismissed; Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morningstar; Stephen King’s upcoming novel Fairy Tale; a...
- 1/27/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #202: The Writer’s Journey with Christopher Vogler on screenwriting,...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #202: The Writer’s Journey with Christopher Vogler on screenwriting,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Coming-of-age drama screens at the market.
Blue Fox Entertainment has launched sales at Efm on the coming-of-age comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp from the Netflix show Stranger Things.
Brazilian documentarian Fernando Grostein Andrade made his narrative debut on the film, which premiered at Sundance and centres on a 12-year old boy from Brooklyn who dreams of being a chef.
Instead of going to the traditional summer camp his parents signed him up for, he sneaks off to Manhattan to work with an innovative street chef with hopes of using his culinary skills to unite his multicultural family. Rounding out the cast are Seu Jorge,...
Blue Fox Entertainment has launched sales at Efm on the coming-of-age comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp from the Netflix show Stranger Things.
Brazilian documentarian Fernando Grostein Andrade made his narrative debut on the film, which premiered at Sundance and centres on a 12-year old boy from Brooklyn who dreams of being a chef.
Instead of going to the traditional summer camp his parents signed him up for, he sneaks off to Manhattan to work with an innovative street chef with hopes of using his culinary skills to unite his multicultural family. Rounding out the cast are Seu Jorge,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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In the logical, rational films of Christopher Nolan, heroes often make a mythical journey into the land of the dead, Ryan writes...
Christopher Nolan stands in front of a chalk board, carefully scratching out a network of lines and arrows. He's attempting to describe the complex structure of Memento, his second film, which cuts between two intertwining stories - one told in a conventional order, the other told in reverse.
"Most movies present a quite comfortable universe," Nolan says, standing in front of his odd hairpin-shaped diagram, "where we're given an objective truth that we don't get in everyday life. That's one of the reasons we go to the movies."
For many, Memento was their first encounter with Nolan's style of filmmaking, which seems fixated on the precise and the concrete. He favours the use of celluloid and practical, in-camera effects. Like Stanley Kubrick before him, Nolan...
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In the logical, rational films of Christopher Nolan, heroes often make a mythical journey into the land of the dead, Ryan writes...
Christopher Nolan stands in front of a chalk board, carefully scratching out a network of lines and arrows. He's attempting to describe the complex structure of Memento, his second film, which cuts between two intertwining stories - one told in a conventional order, the other told in reverse.
"Most movies present a quite comfortable universe," Nolan says, standing in front of his odd hairpin-shaped diagram, "where we're given an objective truth that we don't get in everyday life. That's one of the reasons we go to the movies."
For many, Memento was their first encounter with Nolan's style of filmmaking, which seems fixated on the precise and the concrete. He favours the use of celluloid and practical, in-camera effects. Like Stanley Kubrick before him, Nolan...
- 6/16/2016
- Den of Geek
What do Batman Begins, Training Day and The Karate Kid, Part III all have in common? Ryan explains...
Nb: The following contains mild spoilers for Batman Begins, Training Day and The Karate Kid, Part III.
In The Karate Kid, it's Mr Miyagi. In Back To The Future, it's Doc Brown. In X-Men, it's Professor Xavier. The mentor is a familiar archetype in the movies, and it's a device which is as old as storytelling itself.
The mentor is commonly characterised as a wise, usually much older being who provides wisdom and useful objects to a story's hero or heroine. The Star Wars movies have introduced numerous mentor figures in the entries released so far: dignified old Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, the benevolent Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn, the mentor for a young Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace.
In each instance, we see the mentor provide their students with teaching and gifts...
Nb: The following contains mild spoilers for Batman Begins, Training Day and The Karate Kid, Part III.
In The Karate Kid, it's Mr Miyagi. In Back To The Future, it's Doc Brown. In X-Men, it's Professor Xavier. The mentor is a familiar archetype in the movies, and it's a device which is as old as storytelling itself.
The mentor is commonly characterised as a wise, usually much older being who provides wisdom and useful objects to a story's hero or heroine. The Star Wars movies have introduced numerous mentor figures in the entries released so far: dignified old Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, the benevolent Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn, the mentor for a young Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace.
In each instance, we see the mentor provide their students with teaching and gifts...
- 6/22/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Director Steven Soderbergh to give cinema lesson. Producer Gale Anne Hurd to be feted by festival.
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
- 7/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Director Steven Soderbergh to give cinema lesson. Producer Gale Anne Hurd to be feted by festival.
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
- 7/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
“Puglia Experience 2013”, an itinerant scriptwriting workshop for professional scriptwriters from all over the world is calling for applications. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 30th April 2013, at 11:59 p.m. Cet.
The workshop will take place from 17th June – 6th July 2013 in the Apulia Region of Italy. It will take about sixteen participants, up to a quarter of places available are reserved for candidates born or resident in Apulia.
All expenses related to travel, accommodation and food are covered in their entirety by the Apulia Film Commission Foundation.
The main tutor of the workshop is the scriptwriter James V. Hart, author of many films, such as “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola and assisted by special guests as Claire Dobbin, international script editor, chairperson of the Melbourne International Film Festival and Christopher Vogler, veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and author of “The Writer’s Journey” and...
The workshop will take place from 17th June – 6th July 2013 in the Apulia Region of Italy. It will take about sixteen participants, up to a quarter of places available are reserved for candidates born or resident in Apulia.
All expenses related to travel, accommodation and food are covered in their entirety by the Apulia Film Commission Foundation.
The main tutor of the workshop is the scriptwriter James V. Hart, author of many films, such as “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola and assisted by special guests as Claire Dobbin, international script editor, chairperson of the Melbourne International Film Festival and Christopher Vogler, veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and author of “The Writer’s Journey” and...
- 4/20/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The villain. The rival. The antithesis. All very apt descriptions of an antagonist in the art of storytelling. In The Writer’s Journey, Christopher Vogler defines the villain as the “hero of his own myth”. He brings up Adolf Hitler and how he had a “sincere belief that he was right, even heroic”, which is a very effective metaphor when one looks back at some of the most colorful villains in cinematic history.
The Joker in The Dark Knight, Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, and Gordon Gekko in Wall Street are recent examples that constantly rank up there amongst greatest villains of all time. As in Vogler’s description, would these characters be as memorable without their schemes and morals? Absolutely not, since their detailed agendas are what separate these compelling villains from the mundane. But however interesting the characters may be, cinemagoers are intended to label these characters as...
The Joker in The Dark Knight, Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds, and Gordon Gekko in Wall Street are recent examples that constantly rank up there amongst greatest villains of all time. As in Vogler’s description, would these characters be as memorable without their schemes and morals? Absolutely not, since their detailed agendas are what separate these compelling villains from the mundane. But however interesting the characters may be, cinemagoers are intended to label these characters as...
- 10/8/2012
- by Alejandro Jose Aagaard Soto
- Obsessed with Film
Over at The Browser, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky names and discusses his top five books on films and filmmaking. There’s an obvious one (Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies), an unexpected autobiography (Kirk Douglas’s The Ragman’s Son), and then the following screenplay tome. From Aronofsky’s piece:
The Writer’s Journey, Christopher Vogler. It’s the Bible for screenwriters. I think it’s the best book on how to write a screenplay ever written. It helped me get through so many roadblocks as a writer.
Vogler adapted the work of Joseph Campbell, an American academic, to the art of screenwriting. Vogler’s approach to screenwriting was based on Campbell’s theory that, because of myths, the arc of a hero’s journey was a story ingrained deeply inside all of us. I really incorporated his ideas and techniques into how I structured films—I referred to it a lot.
The Writer’s Journey, Christopher Vogler. It’s the Bible for screenwriters. I think it’s the best book on how to write a screenplay ever written. It helped me get through so many roadblocks as a writer.
Vogler adapted the work of Joseph Campbell, an American academic, to the art of screenwriting. Vogler’s approach to screenwriting was based on Campbell’s theory that, because of myths, the arc of a hero’s journey was a story ingrained deeply inside all of us. I really incorporated his ideas and techniques into how I structured films—I referred to it a lot.
- 2/14/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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