The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers — Christopher Vogler [FULL INTERVIEW]
A story that has a metaphorical dimension
Film Courage: What is a myth?
Christopher Vogler, Hollywood development executive, screenwriter, author and educator: A myth is a lot of things to a lot of people but I think the basic way I interpret this term is that it’s a story, but it’s a story that has a metaphorical dimension. A myth (like most stories) is also a metaphor. What I mean is it’s taken that way by the audience. The audience listening to a fairy tale or reading a myth or seeing a movie version of any of these things tends to look at it with a self-referential eye. People are profoundly self-centered and they think everything should be about them so they’re looking for themselves in the story or in the myth. I think the difference between myth and story is simply that myths have another dimension, they access us in another world beyond our normal world.
This might be something supernatural or something uncanny. It might involve the world of fairies…
