"substories" - 1 õppematerjal

Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey

members of the culture. 248  EPILOGUE: LOOKING BACK ON THE JOURNEY Like its epic predecessors, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Arthurian romances, or the R i n g Cycle of Wagner, Titanic tells part of a vast story, the bridg­ 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