How To Tell A Better Story — John Bucher [FULL INTERVIEW]
Film Courage: Hero with a thousand faces, what does this mean?
John Bucher, Writer and Narrative Consultant: In one sense there is a story that the human being has been repeating over and over and over ever since we were able to articulate stories. At the center of that story is a heroic figure. We might call that heroic figure the hero. We might call that heroic figure the heroine. We might call that heroic figure a heroic team or a collective or ensemble but in a sense the hero with a thousand faces represents the many, many masks that that heroic presence has put on throughout history, throughout time and throughout culture amongst groups of people who have never met each other around the world. There’s something in the energy of that story that continues to rise up in human beings and I believe will continue to rise because it speaks to our own psychological development and movement as humans.
Film Courage: When you say masks are you talking about the fact that we all have many sides to us, even someone that’s heralded as a saint can also have sin in them…
