Christopher Vogler, based in Los Angeles, is a veteran story consultant for major Hollywood film companies and a respected teacher of filmmakers and writers around the globe. He has influenced the stories of movies from The Lion King to Fight Club to The Thin Red Line and most recently wrote the first installment of Ravenskull, a Japanese-style manga or graphic novel.
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"This book is like having the smartest person in the story meeting come home with you and whisper what to do in your ear as you write a screenplay. Insight for insight, step for step, Chris Vogler takes us through the process of connecting theme to story and making a script come alive." - Lynda Obst, Sleepless in Seattle, One Fine Day, Contact, Author of Hello, He Lied"
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I have mixed feelings about this book.
From a content perspective, this book is great. Vogler's key points give clear identity to the structure framework that most film fans are loosly aware off, but haven't managed to grasp so precicely. It is a great workbook to use alongside one's own writing, giving one a clearer mindset of the overall structure, allowing one to make variations to structure intentional, not accidental.
Having said that, it is not an easy read. I'm not sure how Vogler has managed to murky up what should be neat precise guidelines, but it can be rather sluggish going. It's as if Vogler feels the need to clarify and address every criticism of the steps as he goes.
A good book for identifying weak areas for screenplays in progress. I feel for those starting from scratch, this book could possibly confuse instead.
Personally i did not like this book at all. It is overly simplified and pretty average in its relevancy to the stories he relates it to.
The character types and events he makes point of, have little resemblance to anything other than Epic style movies or Westerns or just directly to fairytales, myths and folktales.
The story structure (Yes, singular, not plural) he describes in the book is very simplified with no real amount for leniency for any other story structure like a pulp fiction/reservoir dogs or 21-Grams.
If your looking for a book on how to write Hollywood cheesiness, Go ahead and buy this.
A much better starting point is Robert McKee's Story but this (Vogler book) is good as something to read through once or twice, just to reaffirm your own knowledge and gain a good insight on how you can contort the conventions in ye olde literature.
The Writer;s Journey is considered THE text for story tellers, or so I've been lead to believe by many different sources. But having read it I could recommend others which are more accessible and more relevent.
Not to say that the book isn't useful, it is, especially for new writers looking for a framework reference to structure their tales around, but the problem is you could fit the useful parts of the book into about 20% of the pages.
The main issue I have is that Vogler reads too much into every little facet of a story and his examples and spends an inordinate amount of time reciting his real life run ins with high level studio execs which bare no use to the subject matter.
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