I'd go insane sticking to one particular structure.
Besides which, the "hero's journey" as commonly adapted for commercial use is based on a Disney memo on Star Wars as analyzed by a foont named Vogler who wished to half-include Joseph Campbell's theories in The Hero with a Thousand Faces so as to introduce that quasi-mystical, quasi-Jungian variable which lapsed gnostics and wistful agnostics know and crave -- all of which has been used and recycled so often that post-Journey movies all feel like processed pudding delivered in the same familiar box.
I try to modify and destroy familiar structures whenever possible (unless I'm co-writing a screenplay and being forced to adhere).
Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 05-18-2011 at 08:04 AM.
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