12 Stages Of The Hero's Journey - Christopher Vogler
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- 0) 0:00 - Intro
1) 0:58 - Ordinary World
2) 2:02 - Call To Adventure
3) 3:35 - Refusal Of The Call
4) 5:47 - Meeting Of The Mentor
5) 7:50 -Crossing The Threshold (Launch Into The Special World)
6) 9:36 - Tests, Allies, Enemies
7) 11:01 - Approach To The Inmost Cave
8) 12:24 - The Ordeal
9) 14:38 - Reward
10) 16:08 - The Chase
11) 18:28 - Resurrection
12) 20:30 - Return With Elixir
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Christopher Vogler made documentary films as an Air Force officer before studying film production at the University of Southern California, where he encountered the ideas of mythologist Joseph Campbell and observed how they influenced the story design of the first Star Wars movie. He worked as a story consultant in the development departments of 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Animation, and Paramount Pictures, and wrote an influential memo on Campbell’s Hero’s Journey concept that led to his involvement in Disney’s Aladdin, The Lion King and Hercules. After the publication of The Writer’s Journey, he had a hand in developing the stories of many productions, including Disney’s remake of 101 Dalmatians, Fox’s Fight Club, Courage Under Fire, Volcano, The Thin Red Line and many others. Vogler lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Everyone needs a good and well-written hero.
I highly recommend Christopher Vogler's "The Writer's Journey". It's not only a great distillation of The Hero's Journey, but it's also beautifully illustrated. It's one of my prized possessions, as a writer.
It's a treasure. We love the illustrations, as well. Thank you for watching!
i feel like this video alredi recommended christopher vogler's the writer's journey....haha just playin, just giving ya a hard time
When 20 minutes feels like 5 minutes... This was amazing.
The Never Ending story. The perfect Hero's journey with the most perfect story arch.
Wow! Love that movie. I have to rewatch it now
What about "Shrek"?
Think about Shrek in this context.
And literal archetypes
It doesn't need to be replaced or modernized. Just told and enjoyed.
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
@@Novastar.SaberCombat We want to believe we create the path we walk but in truth we walk the path that creates us, hopefully with faith in something higher than human failure.
Amen, amen, and amen 🙏🏼
As always, this is an amazing interview. I could picture my whole story in every stage he described. This is truly a very helpful explanation. Thank you.
What did he call step 10?
Is it the hot pursuit or chasing ?
I've always thought of writing a story as its own kind of hero's journey. You take a mental/spiritual journey, make discoveries, push against your limits, and eventually bring your newfound knowledge back to your audience.
O yea I get that. How Bout Luke Skywalker in the Daguba system?
It certainly is. Often the story of making the story is more interesting than the story. An author essentially has to have a personality disorder
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
Great talk, I'm in stage 6 of my journey.
The very best breakdown of the Hero's Journey I've heard. So many script people seem to have head knowledge, but they can't always get it out in an understandable way. Thanks, Mr. Volger. Excellent!
The first time I ever gave out a script to be read (to my niece who graduated from film school), I was expecting to get specific criticism on various items. Instead, she just gave me his book. Good choice for both of us.
Translation:
Too much to unpack here, please read this book, get back to me when you can.
Did you ever finish that screenplay, or just move on to another one?
Woow, walking on the sculls and bones of the heros before him ... That hit home. Greeeeat thank you!!!!!!
You don't know how to spell skull? 🤔🤔🤔
@@slappy8941 You don't know how to be kind? 🤔😉
That was powerful!
Thanks. My notes on the hero's journey have been improved. I feel that all plot points, pinch points, and beats found within the many story structures are tools to aid the creative process and not a fixed prescription. In every creative pursuit, intellectual knowledge must become instinctual wisdom through focused practice.
Status quo
Call to Adventure - cue horns
Hero refuses the Call - senses danger - others discourage
Introduce Mentor - reassurance and resources
Get up and go - launch, turning point
In the New World - figure out rules - allies and enemies
The Approach - teambuilding, romance
The Ordeal - near death and rebirth - blood on the floor - hero faces greatest fear
The Reward - reflect on new identity - focus on finishing - increase in energy
The Final Exam - on a knife edge
Elixir - for the Good of the Community
Thank you so much , this helps a lot 😊😊
thank you😅
How wonderful is this. Thank you.
Thanks Daniel! We are excited to share this one!
Mr. Vogler's gift to aspiring screen writers is immeasurable...
To this day ; I remember our brief conversation at the Maui Writer's Conference years ago .
Mahalo.
Speaking for myself, I can’t hear this stuff reiterated enough, especially from the foremost specialist on the subject.
Thank you..!
Cheers! This one is here if you need it again!
Many movies followed this structure formulaically and caused more drowsiness than melatonin. Not the fault of the heroes journey. For a while everyone was writing in this structure and when everyone is doing something in art most are doing it wrong.
I’ve read his book. Loved it. Still love it.
i know George Lucas spoke a lot about his inspiration from Joseph Campbell, but i didn’t realize that Star Wars is basically exactly these steps in order haha. fully explains although why it’s one of the greatest movies in history
I like to see this channel do something on Eastern writing too, where the journey is more important or the antagonist is more nebulous
I'd also love to see that because they often break this mold. Ghibli movies are a great example.
We could use some more good heroes these days. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
I've spent so many hours on this channel, it's a treasure to say the least.
whoever behind this channel, Thank you a lot for helping me making my movies
Very nice, useful outline! I'd just like to add that at some point along the way, the mentor has to go. Gandalf, Obi-Wan, Uncle Ben, Ramirez. Sometimes the mentor sacrifices himself to save the hero, or wants to give him a final push or teach him one final lesson. Sometimes the mentor is destroyed by the hero's nemesis (who may also be the mentor's arch enemy from the past). Sometimes the hero can barely escape with his life. And now he has to learn to keep course all by himself, or with new companions who are not necessarily much wiser than himself. But with the mentor's guidance & training, and with the moral support of his new friends, the hero will soon have the ability to destroy the villain. Yet he will not do it to seek revenge, but because he wants to protect others. Sometimes, after a spectacular, dramatic final confrontation, he is able to defeat the villain, but decides to spare his life so he can help him become a better person. This is his final moral test, and passing it turns him into a truly great hero.
PS. The hero & his friends can have more adventures, protecting others, while following a strict moral code.
And later, after many years, the hero can become someone else's mentor. Then the cycle is complete.
An excellent breakdown of the heroes journey. I especially love the defining of what a hero is at the end. Too many writers, particularly in modern Hollywood, don't understand heroism at all.
I just realized that the majority of my favorite stories follow this.
Chrishtopher has written a lot about mystic and spirituan aspect of writing. In his book he mentioned he believes in some higher power leading him..
Pat Verducci has told us that writing a good story it takes some magic to happen. Many times she has got her missing pieces of the story while sitting in a cafe and some random persons talk about things she is working on.
Eric Edson says the best stories are written by strange persons. He has mentioned that numerology has a big impotance in hit movies.
Could you make a video about spiritual persons who write screenplays for the hit movies and are willing to tell more about things that I wrote above?
definitely agree with this
Just an amazing interview, masterful description. I’m developing a screenplay and this has given been a massive help. Thanks very much for sharing! ❤
What's often overlooked is that The Hero's Journey is MYTHIC story structure, but not all stories follow this particular model.
I love this channel. Tks for this 🎉
masterfully said
great video!
I can't imagine storytelling without Vogler's Writer's Journey.
Thanks a lot, crisp yet detailed 👌☘️
Well done.
Absolutely fantastic, been waiting so long for this interview, thank u ❤
Great!
Thank you...
Beautifully explained and summarized 🙏🏻
What a great lecture, thank you so much!
Gold!🌟
Inspiring and explained beautifully. Cheers Chris
Beautiful
Wow. Great summary.
absolutely fascinating, such a good storyteller as well 🏆
This is a great video for fledgling writers, I love it.
Brilliant and well explained presentation of story structure.
Thank you. This has built on what I have learned in the past. Thank you.
Very welcome
Wow! Very very good.. Thank you Christopher and Film Courage..
A very important aspect in some stories is the death of the experienced mentor, That's great to set the stage that this is not an average adventure but worse than normal because even the professional had to sacrifice himself
Love the plane analogy
This was very helpful for me, I’ve been working on my own story for a couple years now, and this has helped me see where some blank spaces are, and what I could do to add more to my characters. Of course, this method doesn’t have to be followed perfectly, but there are a few things explained in this video that I think are really going to improve my story.
Big Fan of Chris.
I like this guy!
Wonderful commentary. Uncle Joe Campbell was a genius.
I have this book , very helpful
It really is!
This formula is for blockbusters. The masses want this formula. Formulas apply to pop art, pop writing, pop music. If you want to make a good living, write pop. And even then there's no guarantee you're going to be successful. If you want to write outside the formulas, make sure you love your own journey while accepting an oath of financial poverty. In any case, always keep your dayjob. Better, make sure your day job doesn't suck. Best case, you have a job or career that can fund your art as much as it deserves.
I've been working on a treatment for a couple of months now and it's scary how closely it follows the Hero's journey without any particular intent from my side 😅
good guy
This is what I needed.
I'm writing.
The Sword that Divides is a hero’s journey for the ages.
Amen
I lived this as a survivor of assault and the real kidnapping of my children to exploit all of my assets. After S.C. lawyers tried to put me six feet under, I became even stronger.
I'm writing the book now.
Here is the follow up to this video, Christopher Vogler points out The Hero's Journey is NOT a formula - czcams.com/video/4kyhi6jDvso/video.html
Feels like my life so far icl
Amazing interview, well explained! Does he cover everything in his book or a lot important elements are missing? I already bought the book, but I'm asking because the 9 videos all together sum up over 4 hours
We have released all of this interview as individual segments. The final video is the full interview which is all the segments combined which totals over 2 hours. We imagine it is a little of both, his teachings from his book and some stuff you won't find there.
@@filmcourage Okay I see. Thank you very much for the feedback :)
What impact has The Hero's Journey had on your life?
It's made me realize that life is precious.
“What we do in life, echoes in Eternity.”
- Gladiator(2000)
Keep me alive during extreme childhood abuse, later… prevented me from dying of bone cancer, because I don’t survive that child hood sh*t just to die when I was in my early twenties.
Bruce Lee movies.
Clint Eastwood.
Star Wars.
Karate Kid.
Rambo.
I could not watch things like Never Ending Story and others because I lived in a extremely dark house hold and those films frightened me intrinsically.
No matter how dumb some action movie may appear to some people, anything showing the Hero’s Journey contains some type of medicine to those that relate.
Thank You-
The refusal is a crucial step. All heroes must be reluctant.
I want my actual life to be some variation of the hero’s journey
wow tq soo much sir . but small requst , as hero journy s any movie sujjest us
Anyone else immediately start visualising scenes in big movies? I could relate this to lord of the rings, Indiana Jones, back to the future, the matrix, rocky, never ending story, labyrinth and so on.
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A ten minute version lasts over 20 minutes:-)
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The reluctant hero dislikes danger and adventure some people are just forced to overcome obstacles because that's their circumstance I don't like how some fairytales portray the situations as "fun" when realistically they would be anything but. It's like the war games people like to play they may not like the real thing if they get shot though.
You mentioned Campbell what campbell-new about myth might fill a thimble
I need my Princess back!!!! ❤️❤️💯💯
Joseph Campbell The hero of a Thousand Faces
Midsommar...Dani is on the hero's journey
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I have read both Campbell's Hero's Journey and the spin offs and Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat" does a more instructive job on true real-world screenplay timelines broken down to the minutes onscreen spent in each of the stages and the standard order (which is only suggested). All of the pieces explained here are worthwhile but still too conceptual and is missing the relative importance and interplay of the story bones
People who follow Save the Cat, you know Blake Snyder only wrote two terrible movies called Stop or my mom Will shoot and Blank Check, right?
I think this is only applicable in quest and adventure plots. For example, its not applicable in escape plot!
This whole series should be renamed "Film Formulae" 🤔( Green Fire, UK ) 🌈🦉
Protagonist should lose and find rather thought lost but knew it was in your pocket the whole time.
Any chance you could interview Kevin Smith (he'd do it for free) or Kevin Williamson? It would be nice to hear from two completely different types of screenwriter that have had great success.
campbell rules
A shame that male characters are mostly denied this currently in mainstream movies. They are kept perpetually halted in the process.
Men run the movie business! Sooooo....???
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Good note, thank you!
actually, just noticed you do this already on other videos - it really helps:) @@filmcourage
I don't think this comment is particularly useful, I've just to say I've read "The Writer's Journey" 3-4 times depending on how you look at it, and I've cited this man so many times... I might come back later, just had to rinse these thoughts before I could really start to listen again
That's the zodiac 1Aries arragent start 2torus call to adventure 3Gemini choice to be the hero 4cancer the old teacher 5Leo time to pounce 6Virgo the princess quest 7libra finding balance karma and dhama 8Scorpio first real boss fight 9sagitarius prepare the hunt 10capricorn the final boss 11aquarious recognition of deeds 12pieces happily ever after retirement
Of course none of this is necessary if the character is a strong, independent woman.
Good point
Or 🏳️🌈
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Anything else is a 'stereotype' 😉
My webseries flips stage 1 & 2 hmmm?
Woman: give us a 10 minute version to explain heroes journey
Video is 22 minutes 😆
We love this version!
The correct answer was "No, I can't explain the hero's journey in 10 minutes."
He's cooking
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12 house's of astrology.
I bet you’re a pisces
@@notanotherjamesmurphy5574 Aquarius.
Disney now drowning in the Panderverse.
that company should be boycotted yesterday anyway
This has been de-bunked.
i don’t think anybody said that it’s a requirement. it’s not necessary but you can still trace back hundreds of good stories to the outline of the hero’s journey.
I herd your person itself was de-bunked.
This is a tool for creating stories. You can use whatever tool you want. But this one is based on many old and still relevant stories. If you don't use this tool, I'm sure it will still apply to your story because it's universal IMO.
No, it hasn't.
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Jesus Christ is the only HERO. Don’t be distracted by the enemy’s fairytales and false light.
John 14:6👑
You’re allowed to be entertained by stories and be Christian at the same time. Many story protagonists reflect Christ’s qualities, which can endear us to Christ more, not less
Yes, do not confuse reality with fiction. He is talking about mythology.
Before this formula we had actual heroes.
Nowadays they have to suck for 80 minutes until a magical epiphany makes them OP. Sometimes so OP it's boring