Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
their normal worlds before they are thrust into totally alien environments: the Amish
being overwhelmed by the city, and the city cop encountering the 19th-century world
of the Amish. You first see Luke Skywalker, hero of Star Wars, being bored to death
as a farmboy before he sets out to tackle the universe.
Likewise in The Wizard of Oz, considerable time is spent to establish Dorothy's
drab normal life in Kansas before she is blown to the wonderworld of Oz. Here the
contrast is heightened by shooting the Kansas scenes in stern black and white while
the O z scenes are shot in vibrant Technicolor.
An Officer and a Gentleman sketches a vivid contrast between the Ordinary World
of the hero — that of a tough Navy brat with a drunken, whore-chasing father — and
the Special W o r l d of the spit-and-polish Navy flight school which the hero enters.
2 . T H E C A L L TO ADVENTURE
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