Lots of links this time around:
- NEW FOR THIS EPISODE, I’ve expanded my classic structure guru concordance to include Dan Harmon’s story circle and Film Crit Hulk’s five act structure (which we never get around to discussing)
- Here are my massive charts of how 50 movies line up to my structure.
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_102:_Pure,_Boring_Theory
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_103:_Let%27s_Simplify_Before_Moving_On
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_104:_The_Juicy_Details
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_105:_How_TV_is_Different
- http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_106:_Five_Minute_Pilots
- http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/57779240046/could-you-explain-your-story-breaking-process
- http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/57889437682/could-you-explain-a-particular-community-episode
3 comments:
I tend to think of the "return" in Harmon's circle as applying most directly to continuing stories such as ongoing television series, but bear in mind the "return" does not have to be a literal return to the locale of the beginning. It represents the reversal of the change made earlier in the story that led to the more important, lasting change.
The video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuD2Aa0zFiA identified the Star Wars "return" as the return to the rebellion. It's a literal return for Leia, but for Luke it has more to do with escaping the belly of the beast (the Death Star) and returning to a relatively stable environment, even if it isn't the exact environment he came from.
As with most of these structures, there are plenty of ways to apply them, and there's probably not one "right" answer.
That's true, Leia is returning to her home base, and she is the hero we start out with.
Also, the shadow does follow Luke back. It's the "they let us go, you idiot" moment, when Leia reveals that the Death Star escape was "too easy." And of course the Death Star, the ultimate embodiment of technology in a faith vs technology film, follows them back. (FWI - this is my favorite of the podcasts to date! Great work!)
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