Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
ing of two worlds, the O l d W o r l d and the New. W i t h i n these enormous supertales
are hundreds of substories and epic cycles, each with its own dramatic structure and
completeness. N o single work can tell all the threads, but the individual story can
communicate the sense, the dramatic facts, of the entire situation. Titanic has been
criticized for not dramatizing this or that substory — the Carpathia's race to the
scene, the stories of the Astors and Guggenheims, the difficulties of the telegrapher
in getting out distress calls, etc. But no film could tell all the substories. Storytellers
of the future can choose other incidents and personalities to highlight. It will take
the combined output of many artists to fully tell the tale of the Titanic, just as it has
taken Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Strauss, Kazantzakis, H a l l m a r k Productions,
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