Grand, unified artistic theories don’t get much grander and unified than Dan Harmon’s storytelling process. As detailed in an article on Wired some five years ago, Harmon boiled down Joseph Campbell’s monomyth of the hero’s journey into a simple circle. And once he grasped this storytelling principle he couldn’t stop seeing it: in plot arcs, in character arcs, in the arc of a single joke. The circle reappears over and over in Harmon’s work on Community and Rick And Morty—and also, according to the theory, everywhere else. And it’s not just in storytelling, but in pop music, sports fandom, and our everyday lives. The theory itself isn’t super complicated, but its applications are vast. Handily, the video essayist Will Schoder teases it out in an insightful new video.
The theory boils down to two sentences: 1) A character is in a ...
The theory boils down to two sentences: 1) A character is in a ...
- 11/30/2016
- by Clayton Purdom
- avclub.com
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