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Humberto Rivera
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“Action – Adventure”! When in a “Motion Picture Film”; What-is-it? Interesting question, especially the “Adventure” part of the equation! How many times have we heard the term in “everyday-use”, an “Adventure”, it usually starts with a JOURNEY that takes us away from everyday life, in time and space, past, present, and future. I can still remember the words of; “Joseph Campbell”, the start of “THE HEROES JOURNEY”! I really had to dig deep-down in my memories to “pull-his-name-out” out of the depth of my past, it came to me this morning while taking a “shower” of-course that’s one of the places where “all-good-ideas” come from, there must be something “when-hot-water-hits-the-naked-body” your eyes are close so you don’t get soap in your eyes that momentarily remove you from the reality of “every-day-life”, it elicits Ideas, Recollections, Inventions and New Revelations! Then is easy after that to look it up in Wekipidia.com; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell how fortunate we are to have that reference for anything we’re interest in looking-up!
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987 – age 83) was a man that travelled throughout World, in search of the MEANING OF THE MYTH, his belief that “God” “was-in-all-of-our-souls” yours, mine, everyone’s, without reference to religion, he spoke English, French, German, Latin, and Japanese, he was a student of James Joyce. Gorge Lucas gives him credit with influencing his Star War’s Films repertoire and was often a guest at the Lucas “Sky Walker Ranch”; he was a genius in my humble opinion!
TO QUOTE FROM WIKIPIDIEA.COM; “Bruce Robison writes that "Campbell would refer to those days as a time when everything in his life was taking shape.... CAMPBELL, THE GREAT CHRONICLER OF THE 'HERO'S JOURNEY' IN MYTHOLOGY, recognized patterns that paralleled his own thinking in one of Ricketts's unpublished philosophical essays. Echoes of Carl Jung, Robinson Jeffers and James Joyce can be found in the work of Steinbeck and Ricketts as well as Campbell." Wikipidiea.com
In order to have “Action” there has to be an “Adventure”, or the other way around, it does not matter they are link together; you cannot have one without the other. It plays in movies (screenwriting) over and over again. TO QUOTE SOME MORE; “In 1940 Campbell attended a lecture by Professor Heinrich Zimmer at Columbia University; the two men became friends, and Campbell looked upon Zimmer as a mentor. Zimmer TAUGHT Campbell “that myth” (RATHER THAN A GURU OR SPIRITUAL GUIDE) could serve in the role of a personal mentor, IN THAT ITS STORIES PROVIDE A PSYCHOLOGICAL ROAD MAP FOR THE FINDING OF ONESELF IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE COMPLEX MODERN WORLD. Zimmer relied more on the meanings of mythological tales (THEIR SYMBOLS, METAPHORS, IMAGERY, ETC.) as a source for psychological realization than upon psychoanalysis itself. Campbell later borrowed from Jung's interpretative techniques and then reshaped them in a fashion that followed Zimmer's beliefs—INTERPRETING DIRECTLY FROM WORLD MYTHOLOGY. This is an important distinction, because it serves to explain why Campbell did not directly follow Jung's footsteps in applied psychology.” Wikipidiea.com
I would highly recommend reading the entire Wikipidiea.com article, and if you want to go further that much the better, it’s one of the basis for everything in the “Theatrical Motion Picture Creation”, the pitched, the written outline, the story line, the script, the storyboard, and the documentary film whatever “you-want-to-call-it”, “it-is” there, “all-of-it”! Don’t take my word for it, read it, then it will go into your subconscious, where many other things exist today, it’s you’re your life’s history (or story), you may want to recall it back one day, when you take a shower, or go on vacation, or walk alone on the beach, or whatever you do to take you out of your environment that makes you feel comfortable, when you go-on an “Adventure” to another place.
That makes me remember Lester Navarro’s, a professor we had at USC Cinema, he taught his class at his studio, he always said, “you-don’t-have-to-understand” what I’m saying RIGHT NOW, it will eventually come back to you when YOU REALLY NEED-IT, “and-so-it-did”, many times. It was good advice, it worked, is in the subconscious of your mind, along with all the other memories that you have accumulated along the “path-of-life”...
Joseph John Campbell, took the time to travel, lean languages, meet people from the past, read their books, share their personal experiences, and synthesized it into his own ideas which he then share with all of us through his written works, audio cassettes, and documentaries that have been created about him during a lifetime of 83 years, we should all thank him for it, I do, Thank You Joseph Campbell wherever you may you be “rest-in-peace”!
How many times have we begun a story with; I was sitting around an “Action” (insert words) that occurred to send me on an “Adventure” (insert words)! Such as “The Avengers”, “The Hobbit”, “Spiderman” (was bitten by a spider), “Star Wars” (sitting on a planet and you discover something).
I think you get the drift, “I-use” the word “MYTHOLOGY” to describe Joseph Campbell, how about “THE HEROES JOURNEYS”, they’re all part of the lexicon of screenwriting, and you can’t have an “Action”, without a “Reaction”. You can’t have a “Theatrical Motion Picture” without a “Screenplay”. You can’t have a screenplay without an “Idea”. The Script is the “creative-guiding-instrument” that is handed down to the “team-to-interpret”; The Producer, Director, the Director of Photography, the Actors, the Location Manager, the Production Designer, the Costumes Designer, Composer, Editor and on and on, it all began “with-that-idea”, the one on “The Script”! Each person looked at the script “on-their-own-way”, all under the direction of the Director, but they all “contributed-to-the-whole”, which then becomes a “Theatrical Motion Picture”!
Humberto Rivera
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987 – age 83) was a man that travelled throughout World, in search of the MEANING OF THE MYTH, his belief that “God” “was-in-all-of-our-souls” yours, mine, everyone’s, without reference to religion, he spoke English, French, German, Latin, and Japanese, he was a student of James Joyce. Gorge Lucas gives him credit with influencing his Star War’s Films repertoire and was often a guest at the Lucas “Sky Walker Ranch”; he was a genius in my humble opinion!
TO QUOTE FROM WIKIPIDIEA.COM; “Bruce Robison writes that "Campbell would refer to those days as a time when everything in his life was taking shape.... CAMPBELL, THE GREAT CHRONICLER OF THE 'HERO'S JOURNEY' IN MYTHOLOGY, recognized patterns that paralleled his own thinking in one of Ricketts's unpublished philosophical essays. Echoes of Carl Jung, Robinson Jeffers and James Joyce can be found in the work of Steinbeck and Ricketts as well as Campbell." Wikipidiea.com
In order to have “Action” there has to be an “Adventure”, or the other way around, it does not matter they are link together; you cannot have one without the other. It plays in movies (screenwriting) over and over again. TO QUOTE SOME MORE; “In 1940 Campbell attended a lecture by Professor Heinrich Zimmer at Columbia University; the two men became friends, and Campbell looked upon Zimmer as a mentor. Zimmer TAUGHT Campbell “that myth” (RATHER THAN A GURU OR SPIRITUAL GUIDE) could serve in the role of a personal mentor, IN THAT ITS STORIES PROVIDE A PSYCHOLOGICAL ROAD MAP FOR THE FINDING OF ONESELF IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE COMPLEX MODERN WORLD. Zimmer relied more on the meanings of mythological tales (THEIR SYMBOLS, METAPHORS, IMAGERY, ETC.) as a source for psychological realization than upon psychoanalysis itself. Campbell later borrowed from Jung's interpretative techniques and then reshaped them in a fashion that followed Zimmer's beliefs—INTERPRETING DIRECTLY FROM WORLD MYTHOLOGY. This is an important distinction, because it serves to explain why Campbell did not directly follow Jung's footsteps in applied psychology.” Wikipidiea.com
I would highly recommend reading the entire Wikipidiea.com article, and if you want to go further that much the better, it’s one of the basis for everything in the “Theatrical Motion Picture Creation”, the pitched, the written outline, the story line, the script, the storyboard, and the documentary film whatever “you-want-to-call-it”, “it-is” there, “all-of-it”! Don’t take my word for it, read it, then it will go into your subconscious, where many other things exist today, it’s you’re your life’s history (or story), you may want to recall it back one day, when you take a shower, or go on vacation, or walk alone on the beach, or whatever you do to take you out of your environment that makes you feel comfortable, when you go-on an “Adventure” to another place.
That makes me remember Lester Navarro’s, a professor we had at USC Cinema, he taught his class at his studio, he always said, “you-don’t-have-to-understand” what I’m saying RIGHT NOW, it will eventually come back to you when YOU REALLY NEED-IT, “and-so-it-did”, many times. It was good advice, it worked, is in the subconscious of your mind, along with all the other memories that you have accumulated along the “path-of-life”...
Joseph John Campbell, took the time to travel, lean languages, meet people from the past, read their books, share their personal experiences, and synthesized it into his own ideas which he then share with all of us through his written works, audio cassettes, and documentaries that have been created about him during a lifetime of 83 years, we should all thank him for it, I do, Thank You Joseph Campbell wherever you may you be “rest-in-peace”!
How many times have we begun a story with; I was sitting around an “Action” (insert words) that occurred to send me on an “Adventure” (insert words)! Such as “The Avengers”, “The Hobbit”, “Spiderman” (was bitten by a spider), “Star Wars” (sitting on a planet and you discover something).
I think you get the drift, “I-use” the word “MYTHOLOGY” to describe Joseph Campbell, how about “THE HEROES JOURNEYS”, they’re all part of the lexicon of screenwriting, and you can’t have an “Action”, without a “Reaction”. You can’t have a “Theatrical Motion Picture” without a “Screenplay”. You can’t have a screenplay without an “Idea”. The Script is the “creative-guiding-instrument” that is handed down to the “team-to-interpret”; The Producer, Director, the Director of Photography, the Actors, the Location Manager, the Production Designer, the Costumes Designer, Composer, Editor and on and on, it all began “with-that-idea”, the one on “The Script”! Each person looked at the script “on-their-own-way”, all under the direction of the Director, but they all “contributed-to-the-whole”, which then becomes a “Theatrical Motion Picture”!
Humberto Rivera
