Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
H i s O R D I N A R Y W O R L D is
that of a showman trying to raise money for his expensive scientific adventures. His
O U T E R P R O B L E M is trying to find a treasure, a diamond thought to have been
lost on the Titanic; his I N N E R P R O B L E M is trying to find an authentic voice and
a better system of values.
T h e figure of the scientist-explorer is common enough to have become an
archetype, expressed as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation, Professor Challenger;
Allan Quartermain of King Solomons Mines; the explorer-showman Carl Denning of
King Kong, and the contemporary Indiana Jones. These fictional characters are reflec
tions of real adventuring archaeologists and researchers like Howard Carter, Hein-
rich Schlieman, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Jacques Cousteau. Robert Ballard, the
scientist-adventurer-businessman who actually found the wreck of the Titanic, is one
model for Lovett in the movie, and actually went through his own Hero's Journey in
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