"aeternas" - 1 õppematerjal

Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey

choose between M r . Big and the young drifter or detective. Leonardo D i C a p r i o plays the drifter corner of the triangle in Titanic. T h e secret o f his remarkable attractive powers may be that he projects the archetypal 250  EPILOGUE: LOOKING BACK ON THE JOURNEY mask of the sensitive young man, displaying both masculine action and feminine sensitivity. H e is well suited to play Jack, a Peter Pan, a puer aeternas (eternal y o u t h ) who remains forever young by his beautiful, sacrificial death. Rose is another Wendy, a girl in bedclothes running around a ship dodging an evil Captain H o o k while the eternal youth teaches her how to fly and how to embrace life. T h e iceberg and the ticking of the clock fulfill the same archetypal purpose as the crocodile which has swallowed a clock in Peter Pan. T h e y are projections o f the Shadow,