Time
3 minutes
Here’s the structure that most American films use. Learning this may change the
way you watch films (it did for me). It’s a structure as old as time and storytellers
have been using it for thousands of years. Joseph Campbell called it the monomyth
or Hero’s Journey. I’ll refer to as
narrative structure
. Its basic elements are:
1. Status Quo
2. Inciting Incident/Status Quo Change
3. Raise the stakes
4. Moment of Truth
5. Outcome/New Status Quo
Status Quo
Life as is. The hero, our…
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