Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
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,
Classic Comics, and thousands of other artists to fully tell the epic story of the Od
yssey, itself only one of dozens of epic cycles in the superstory of the Trojan War.
As a story about the rapid crossing of the Atlantic, Titanic symbolizes this
century's preoccupation with speedy travel and increasing global consciousness. It
speaks of centuries of European culture passing to America, of the waves of i m
migrants filling the American continents, lured by the seductive promise of freedom.
In the film the Statue of Liberty is a recurring symbol of the immigrant dream, a
lighthouse beckoning the newcomer
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