Recently, there has been a new movie theater built near my house. They have been working on it for quite a while. And I’ve been looking forward to it’s completion with great expectation. There aren’t many things I enjoy as much as a good movie. Because this new theater is only a five minute walk from my apartment, I can watch movies whenever I want.
Something about being swept away by a the story of a movie is a thrilling yet humbling experience for many. The ancient Greeks new the power of catharsis, and spoke about it at length in many of their discourses. Movies, plays, and stories have been an integral part of human history as long as humans have been around.
Of course, we haven’t always been able to watch movies. Before movies, and even before books, people would simply tell stories. Back in the old days, every village would have it’s resident story teller, that would be responsible for keeping track of the village history through the telling and retelling of stories.
If you look at the structure of your basic story, or your basic movie, you’ll find a similar theme that runs underneath all the different stories. You have a basic character that goes on a journey. And through this journey, he makes new friends, forms new alliances, and has to join forces with these new friends to defeat a common enemy.
This structure has been documented many times, probably most notable in Joseph Campbell’s “The Power Of Myth.” In this book he illustrated how many myths from many different cultures share some of the basic structural elements. It is great evidence that humans are much more similar than different.
Whether you are studying the ancient mythology of some far off and ancient tribe, or watching the latest blockbuster in your neighborhood movie theater, you are taking part in something that has been part of human history since the very beginning of time.
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