This column has noted, multiple times over the course of this year, that the 2024 presidential election has taken on the character of the literary trope of the Hero’s Journey. And today, the final ...

The video essay opens with an interview clip in which Shyamalan sets his goal for the film. He states, “I’m going to make an entire movie about the first act, an entire movie about a guy realizing ...

Everyone who's interested in how stories are made is bound to have heard the term "the Hero's Journey." Also known as the monomyth, it's a story archetype coined and popularized by Joseph Campbell in ...