>literally every adventure, fantasy, scifi, superhero and history movie is built up like this
How do we fix it, Cinemaphile?
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>literally every adventure, fantasy, scifi, superhero and history movie is built up like this
Why fix it? It's a perfect lizardbrain storytelling formula. It's got a hook, relationships that represent opposing forces for our protagonist, a midstory reached goal/twist/punishment etc that makes you feel fulfilled and makes you pay more attention, and it's got emotional development focused mostly in the second half when we are aware of our protagonist's life etc so we can emphasize. It doesnt have to be this way, but aside from some quirks all the good stories work like that. The stories of Jon snow, naruto, luffy, Jaime lannister, kaladin, Walter white, et al work pretty much the same way.
It can't be fixed: the hero's journey has always been sociological fanfiction courtesy of Joseph Campbell.
It's not bad as a tool for examining narrative structure however it's far, far from being a universal constant of story telling.
That shit is so general you can interpret any story to fit the formula.
Because alternatives are generally shit stories
>hero wins first time and suffers no setback
Shit
>story starts with hero at the top of his game and they stay there
Shit
>no mentor and hero just improves on their own
Shit
>>no mentor and hero just improves on their own
name a single movie
all isekai anime
Isekai doesn't follow any pacing scheme at all. It's just meandering power fantasy. It's like watching someone play skyrim with console commands on
ah, so THAT'S why it sucks.
starts with hero at the top of his game and they stay there
would work great as a comedy
>story starts with hero at the top of his game and they stay there
watch crime films instead
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Bittersweet ending where the hero loses something or everything to win
No. Joseph Campbell is a hack who's formula doesn't fit any particular myth. People just take bits and pieces of his formula and look for elements from a film that match this and declare said film is using this formula.
Normally a brain this smooth would qualify as a new state of matter.
>hero's journey
>you really really think the hero will win at the end
>he loses
Love this trope. I like to see them fail like I did
Campbell was a moron. Everything fits his formula because it's meaninglessness vague. For "refusal of the call" he cites examples that range from running away from a rapist to falling asleep.
I don't understand what confuses you.
>I have discovered a story structure with 12 steps
>but most of my examples only have a 2/3 of the 12
>and every step needs to be interpreted symbolically, so it covers a wide range of vaguely related ideas
>hey have you noticed how every story features a character attempting to do something?
>this is called le hero's journey
>being reductive is smart and cool
Trannies and art hoes flooding the Internet with their useless reddit opinions was a mistake
The heros journey is literally real life. Everyone goes through it learning how to do something difficult.
heh
wrong
Campbell is a hack moron
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