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Casual Articles - The Hero's Journey, Story Structure, Screenwriting: Tsotsi (2005) deconstructed [basic]
We're nearly halfway through the year 2007 and the UK property market remains strong, as property prices continue their buoyant upward trend. This constant rise has also seen an increase in the number of mortgages in the UK - and Nationwide, the UK's largest building society, has just reported a 92.7 per cent rise in net annual mortgage lending – increasing to ?10.6 billion.However, despite the upward trend in the mortgage sector, the building society also claims that the recent increase in the Bank of England base rate has meant that fixed-rate borrowers could start to feel the pinch when it comes to renewing their loan. Nationwide envisage that the four rises in interest rates that have occurred since August 2006 will mean that the UK housing market will likely see a "cooling" period in the second half of 2006.Essentially, homeowners who have taken out a f
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challe
Imagine a situation where you are driving to your workplace. You are going by your usual route. The roads are familiar to you, the areas you pass through are familiar to you, even the behavior of the traffic is known to you. You are not concentrating fully on driving – you don’t have to because driving by this route has almost become a habit. Your attention is partially on driving and partially on other thoughts.Suddenly you notice a big “STOP” sign on the road. You come out of your thoughts and try to figure out what is happening. You are now giving full attention to what lies ahead. The road is closed for repair and you are advised to take the road on your right side. You mentally adjust the route you have to take now. You are forced to re-plan rest of your journey.The headline of your webpage and subject line of your email should work something like the “
Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.
The Hero's Journey:
a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.
b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.
c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.
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The Hero's Journey: Tsotsi (2005) deconstructed [basic]
FADE IN: Ordinary World: Tsotsi et al playing dice.
Developing characters and relationships: 4+5=9
Meeting the Hero: Tsotsi turns around.
Ordinary World: in the townships.
Hero's Status: Tsotsi leading the pack.
Hero's Capabilities: small time gangsta.
Foreshadow of the Mentor: foreshadow of the Mentor: the old man in the subway station.
Inciting Incident: watching the old man in the station, following him onto the train, mugging and killing him.
Resisting / Repelled by the Inciting Incident: being sick.
Call to Adventure: Teacher Boy talks about decency; what is your name; does anything hurt you like that.
Meeting the Shape Shifter: the bar owner woman.
Warning of the Refusal: no trouble in my place.
Refusal: Tsotsi beats up Teacher Boy.
Pushed out of his Ordinary World: tell that bastard never to come here again.
Leaving the Ordinary World in haste: Tsotsi running.
Hero's Backstory: Tsotsi running as a child.
Physical Change: his hands.
Hero's Backstory: in the cylinders with his mother.
Pulled to the First Threshold: Tsotsi takes the car; shoots the mother.
Driving into the unknown: the dark night.
Resisting the First Threshold: trying to ignore the baby.
Conscious Decision / Physical Marker: taking the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the cops find the abandoned car.
Outer Cave / Fish out of Water: waking up with the baby.
Middle Cave / Meeting Allies and Enemies: the boys knock.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: seeing the woman with the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the husband doesn't want excuses.
Developing the Shape Shifter and the Fool / Beginning of the divergence: outside "something fishy," where is he; fuck him.
Meeting the Mentor: the old man spits on Tsotsi.
Mentor's Ordinary World: the old man talks with the newspaper seller.
Pulled Forward by the Mentor: following the old man.
Hero / Mentor interaction: under the bridge.
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challen
Sometime last summer I decided to host a pity party and invite all my friends. Well, not all my friends, exactly. Only those whose livelihoods might have, like mine, been suffering from the downward slide of the economy. To make the guest list, invitees would have to possess the ability to grumble, gripe, groan, fuss, snarl, scream, fret, rant and complain -- preferably all at the same time. I wanted world-class whiners at my party. Optimists need not apply.The idea for the party came about following several back-to-back conversations with different editors, all of whom relayed to me different versions of the same scenario: advertising sales are down, there are fewer magazines pages to fill, so we don't have as many assignments for contract writers like you. Almost overnight, or so it seemed, the regular work I'd come to count on disappeared. "Sorry," my editors sa
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The Hero's Journey: Tsotsi (2005) deconstructed [basic]
FADE IN: Ordinary World: Tsotsi et al playing dice.
Developing characters and relationships: 4+5=9
Meeting the Hero: Tsotsi turns around.
Ordinary World: in the townships.
Hero's Status: Tsotsi leading the pack.
Hero's Capabilities: small time gangsta.
Foreshadow of the Mentor: foreshadow of the Mentor: the old man in the subway station.
Inciting Incident: watching the old man in the station, following him onto the train, mugging and killing him.
Resisting / Repelled by the Inciting Incident: being sick.
Call to Adventure: Teacher Boy talks about decency; what is your name; does anything hurt you like that.
Meeting the Shape Shifter: the bar owner woman.
Warning of the Refusal: no trouble in my place.
Refusal: Tsotsi beats up Teacher Boy.
Pushed out of his Ordinary World: tell that bastard never to come here again.
Leaving the Ordinary World in haste: Tsotsi running.
Hero's Backstory: Tsotsi running as a child.
Physical Change: his hands.
Hero's Backstory: in the cylinders with his mother.
Pulled to the First Threshold: Tsotsi takes the car; shoots the mother.
Driving into the unknown: the dark night.
Resisting the First Threshold: trying to ignore the baby.
Conscious Decision / Physical Marker: taking the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the cops find the abandoned car.
Outer Cave / Fish out of Water: waking up with the baby.
Middle Cave / Meeting Allies and Enemies: the boys knock.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: seeing the woman with the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the husband doesn't want excuses.
Developing the Shape Shifter and the Fool / Beginning of the divergence: outside "something fishy," where is he; fuck him.
Meeting the Mentor: the old man spits on Tsotsi.
Mentor's Ordinary World: the old man talks with the newspaper seller.
Pulled Forward by the Mentor: following the old man.
Hero / Mentor interaction: under the bridge.
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challe
With so many businesses out there the average person may be overwhelmed and go with the first option presented to them. By doing this an individual may become frustrated with the lack of training and support (which is all too common for many businesses), and lose a small fortune in the process. These companies have a tendency to deter people from ever trying another opportunity. To help opportunity seekers, here are five tips:1. Do not “Get in on the Ground Floor” If a home-based business or network marketing company tell you, you must hurry and enroll so you can benefit from being one of the first ones in, don’t do it. If there is a “ground floor” to get in on then obviously the company has not been around long or may not have even launched yet. This is a red flag considering most new home-based businesses and networking marketing companies only last a couple
Meeting the Shape Shifter: the bar owner woman.
Warning of the Refusal: no trouble in my place.
Refusal: Tsotsi beats up Teacher Boy.
Pushed out of his Ordinary World: tell that bastard never to come here again.
Leaving the Ordinary World in haste: Tsotsi running.
Hero's Backstory: Tsotsi running as a child.
Physical Change: his hands.
Hero's Backstory: in the cylinders with his mother.
Pulled to the First Threshold: Tsotsi takes the car; shoots the mother.
Driving into the unknown: the dark night.
Resisting the First Threshold: trying to ignore the baby.
Conscious Decision / Physical Marker: taking the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the cops find the abandoned car.
Outer Cave / Fish out of Water: waking up with the baby.
Middle Cave / Meeting Allies and Enemies: the boys knock.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: seeing the woman with the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the husband doesn't want excuses.
Developing the Shape Shifter and the Fool / Beginning of the divergence: outside "something fishy," where is he; fuck him.
Meeting the Mentor: the old man spits on Tsotsi.
Mentor's Ordinary World: the old man talks with the newspaper seller.
Pulled Forward by the Mentor: following the old man.
Hero / Mentor interaction: under the bridge.
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challe
One of the most important pillar of marketing strategy is ‘Market Segmentation’ that is dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs, characteristics, or behaviour that may require separate products and marketing strategies ( Kotler & Armstrong, 1999). The two steps involved in it are first, naming a broad product-market that suits firm’s resources and disaggregating all possible needs into some generic markets. Secondly, segmenting these broad product-markets in order to select specific target markets (Perreault & McCarthy, 2000)There is an ongoing agreement that no one type of market segmentation is comparatively more effective than the other (Papers4you.com, 2006). Industries and companies around the globe has proved that according to firm’s resources, effective utilization of any market segmentation on ‘proactive basis’ has lead to capt
Antagonism / Pursued: the cops find the abandoned car.
Outer Cave / Fish out of Water: waking up with the baby.
Middle Cave / Meeting Allies and Enemies: the boys knock.
Meeting the Romantic Challenge: seeing the woman with the baby.
Antagonism / Pursued: the husband doesn't want excuses.
Developing the Shape Shifter and the Fool / Beginning of the divergence: outside "something fishy," where is he; fuck him.
Meeting the Mentor: the old man spits on Tsotsi.
Mentor's Ordinary World: the old man talks with the newspaper seller.
Pulled Forward by the Mentor: following the old man.
Hero / Mentor interaction: under the bridge.
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challe
The methods you adopt for measuring your incentive programs should satisfy two requirements.Firstly, the program must be legal and permissible under existing regulations of each State, in which the programs are being operated.Secondly, your method of measurement must be acceptable to the incentive scheme participants, and be seen by them to be reasonable, appropriate and obtainable.The appropriateness of the terms and conditions is the key element in the whole planning of the program. Even if they are totally within the legal requirements, you will waste a great deal of time and money unless you review your whole package of activities and rewards through the eyes of the participants. The need for participant co-operation and enthusiasm must also include your desire to award the prizes in the most appealing form. This includes recognising any tax impl
Magical Gift: why do you go on?
Journey: on the tracks.
Chance of a New Day / World / Opportunity / Self: sunrise in the township.
Foreshadow of the Romantic Challenge: seeing the mother in the street.
Push to the Inner Cave: the baby has ants all over it; needs feeding.
Journey to the Inner Cave: following the mother.
Inner Cave: in the mothers apartment; making her feed the baby.
Developing the Romantic Challenge: attracted to the breasts.
Romantic Challenge's backstory: it was sad; you were happy.
Antagonism / Pursued: the shot woman wants her baby back.
Hero's Backstory / Romantic Challenge: the mother reminds Tsotsi of his own mother.
Leaving the Inner Cave / Between Worlds: tell anyone and I'll kill you.
Ordinary World: walking through the township.
Refusing the Transformation / Foreshadow of the Shape Shifter: that's not Tsotsi, he can't drive.
Pushed Forward: Teacher Boy talking about Decency with the Fela.
Resisting the Transformation: f*ck decency.
Characters and Relationships: anytime you need someone.
Hero's Backstory: Tsotsi thinking of his mother, father, the dog.
Foreshadow of the Separation: Aap knocks on the door.
Forced to the Belly of the Whale: taking the baby to the Cylinder Children.
Physical Separation: Tsotsi tells the woman the truth that he is not the father; getting to know her backstory; she wants to keep the baby.
Resisting the Transformation: it better be here when I get back; I don't want your money.
Trial and Transformation 1:
• Teacher Boy being cared for.
• Tsotsi persuades him to go to his place.
• Teacher Boy at Tsotsi's place.
• Resisting: the boys laugh.
• Transformation: you need to pass your exam.
Push to Trial 2: you need money; we're doing a job.
Trial and Transformation 2:
• Outside the house / What are we doing here?
• Following the car inside; holding the father hostage.
• Asking for the Safe; lets kill him; preventing the killing.
• Resisting: what's going on with you.
• Push to the Transformation: the alarm.
• The bag full of baby things; killing the killer.
Resisting Trial 3: Aap doesn't want to get in the car.
Trial 3: selling the car for money.
Separation: Aap leaves.
Goodbye to the Old World: Tsotsi gives him some money.
Transformation: can I come in please.
Seizing the Sword: being fed; giving the money.
Pushed to the Atonement: you have to give the baby back.
Resisting the Atonement: what does this do; it won't make you its mother.
Romantic Challenge conquered: can I come back here.
Transformation: saying sorry to teacher Boy.
Shape Shifter revealed: the bar woman calls the cops.
Near Death experience: the cops burst into Tsotsi's place.
New Self (clothes): Tsotsi in new clothes.
New Self: (behaviour): Tsotsi gives the old man some money.
Goodbye to the Old Self: watching the Cylinder Children.
Romantic Challenge: the mother looks at her baby, potential for a new father.
Journey to the Atonement: walking to the house.
Forced to the Final Conflict: the guard calls the cops.
Atonement: leaving the baby at the door; ringing the buzzer.
Apotheosis: stretching out his arms to give the baby.
Ultimate Boon: surren
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