Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
plied consciously to make the work more accessible to a broad audience and more
dramatically satisfying.
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EPILOGUE: LOOKING BACK ON THE JOURNEY
H E R O I C J O U R N E Y S I N PULP FICTION
with reference to the screenplay
by Quentin Tarantino, from stories
by Tarantino and Roger Roberts Avary
For the past few years, the film that young people were most interested in talking
about was Pulp Fiction.They wanted to know how on earth the structure o f the Hero's
Journey could be found in that film. Its defiance of the conventions of structure,
content, framing, dialogue, and editing intrigued them. T h e y enjoyed its passionate
intensity and sardonic humor. Some people were offended by its vulgarity and flashes