In the small screening room, everyone exclaimed:

"In 2 minutes, 150,000 views, oh my God, there are 150,000 netizens lying in front of the computer watching your show on time!"

"I'm looking forward to it, at present, the final network data of this episode of the show will definitely not be bad!"

"Shhhh ”

On the screen, the program broadcasts:

"Hello everyone and welcome to the ...... In this issue, we bring you a special program - "Analysis of Hollywood Movie Routines".

We all know that Hollywood movies are popular all over the world, impacting the weak cultures of various regions and influencing countless audiences around the world.

So how do Hollywood movies succeed? What are their core rules? How to crack the Hollywood popcorn movie routine, let's start from the mid-80s of the last century.

In the mid-80s of the 20th century, a seven-page booklet called "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" User Manual was published in Hollywood, and was quickly adopted as a guideline by countless producers, and strongly urged screenwriters to use this only seven pages as a creative criterion!

Some opinionated screenwriters try to find alternative ways to create their creations without the constraints imposed on them, but most of them are hard pressed by both the company and the market.

Today, this simple seven-page paper has developed into a classic bestseller in film studies, and the screenwriting course based on it has become one of the core courses of American film departments.

Why is it that the seven-page "Heroes with a Thousand Faces" User Guide has such a magical charm that has made the industry hate to meet each other and has such a profound and long-lasting influence on Hollywood?

To answer this question, let's first focus on the creator and turn the time back to 1977.

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The barrage is full of surprise:

"Hey, why did my husband start telling stories?"

“……”

"This episode of the show is different from the previous two episodes, and the style has changed again?"

"The first issue complains about bad movies, the second issue recommends good films, and the third issue is a special issue!

"It's good to look at the topic, and it's a long way to see!"

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Back to the show:

In 1977, in the temperate climate of Southern California, at an academic symposium called "Heroes with a Thousand Faces", the speech of mythologist Joseph Campbell amazed a student from the film school, and his troubled mystery of film creation was instantly cleared.

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Joseph Campbell's book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" uses a structuralist research method to compare and analyze countless myths, religions, fairy tales and other stories in the East and the West, and explore the common meaning of these stories.

This mystery is: the heroes in thousands of stories are all born from the same hero, the core of the story is the same, and the hero's journey is the same.

Yes, all heroes have the same story!

The heroes set out from the real world, go through hardships and dangers, enter the supernatural and magical realm, and achieve a decisive victory in the confrontation with the supernatural body. At the end of this magical adventure, the hero returns with honor!

In "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", Joseph Campbell summed up this relatively stable story model of "separation-teaching mysteries-returning", which made the film school student inspired.

When he later joined Disney, he translated Campbell's idea into cinematic language. And around 1985, he summed up the "Hero with a Thousand Faces" user guide of only 7 pages that shook the entire Hollywood!

In 1992, he further perfected and wrote The Author's Journey, a student of the famous screenwriter Vogler.

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Almost all of the 100 classic movies in American film history released in 2008 fit this story model - [Hero's Journey]!

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"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" didn't just influence Vogler, it also influenced George Lucas, Spielberg, J.K. Rowling, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, ...... It is also a source of inspiration for movies such as "Star Wars", "The Matrix" and "Batman......

George Lucas said of Star Wars: 'I did a lot of drafts for this work, and then I stumbled across A Thousand Faces and I really started to ......focus for the first time.'

J.K. Rowling admits that Harry Potter has a shadow of The Hero with a Thousand Faces......

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Now that we've learned about the basic story model of Hollywood movies, let's talk about how Hollywood tricks us in detail.

The so-called routine is just a pragmatism summed up by everyone, with relatively low risk.

As a place like Hollywood that is highly procedural and streamline-style, even script creation has fixed software, which can write a script of about 110 to 140 pages, one minute per page, and the movie duration just meets the standard length of time for commercial films.

Even the standard is that the appearance of the hero and heroine is supported by corresponding detailed data analysis.

Hollywood movie script writing seems to be a fill-in-the-blank question, the number of story turns, the time period of transitions, the proportion of fight conflict scenes, the time between fights, etc., are questions, and screenwriters just need to do a good job of filling in the blanks.

When we've seen enough Hollywood blockbusters, we'll see that they have almost identical internal structures. For example, "Mysterious Superstar", "Mulan", "Dream Travel" and so on, there is no difference between them in terms of structural design and development trajectory.

Next, we will analyze some Hollywood movies and deconstruct the mystery of Hollywood movie routines.

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In the following program content, through the horizontal and vertical comparison of more than ten Hollywood blockbusters, Li Li carefully analyzed every routine of Hollywood movies to the audience.

"Cinema is usually made up of a three-act play...... The first act consists of four key elements: the opening scene, the events that lead to it, the presentation of the theme, and the surprise.

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The surprising surprise of "Mystery Superstar" is that the number of views of the heroine's masked singing video has skyrocketed......

The surprising surprise of "Mulan" is......

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In the video, with Li Li's detailed analysis of several movies, the barrage has flown up:

"I didn't pay attention to watching movies before, it's really ha, the routines of Hollywood blockbusters are exactly the same!"

"The city routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside!"

"Eh, why haven't I noticed these routines, what is the internal structure of people watching movies, I just want to have fun watching movies!"

"I've been taught, I've been taught, and this episode has given me some insight into movies. ”

"For Hollywood blockbusters, I'm not blowing, I read the beginning, I know everything below!"

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In the screening room, Editor-in-Chief Wu asked: "Xiaoli, look at the beginning, you can also know all the content below?"

I don't dare to say this, but I can guess what will happen next, and at what point in time. ”

Xiao Wang asked weakly: "Producer Yu, shall I swipe the webpage again?"

"Hmm!"

After the webpage is refreshed, the data in the lower left corner of the video:

[Plays]: 1.1 million;

[Barrage]: 60,000;

[Likes]: 280,000;

And the video was launched, only half an hour has passed!