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To rank well in any search engine, the words you write should
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right from the very beginning of planning and designing your
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Content development experts know the one thing that causes
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Why is that?

Website content that is “optimized” for the search engines
deliberately aims right at the very words and phrases people are
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It All Makes Sense

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Copyright 2006 Trish Andrews

From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters at at www.managing-creativity.com/

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

The Hero’s Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

and more…

Jarhead (2005) deconstructed

FADE IN: (Loop) narrative; his hands remember the rifle.

New World and Self: you are no longer black, green, etc.

Meeting the Hero: meeting Swoff.

Ordinary World: Fitch being himself.

On a Journey: on the bus.

Threshold Guardian: presenting his papers to the officer.

New World: the barracks.

Meeting the Shape Shifter: Troy.

New Rules: being branded; games played in the barracks.

Developing the Shape Shifter: you want a brand, you gotta earn it. Welcome to the Suck.

Hero’s Backstory: Swoff being conceived; his sister; breakfast conversations with dad; college;

Romantic Challenge: his girlfriend; I’ll write you everyday.

Resisting the Transformation: Swoff in the toilet.

Meeting the Mentor: Sykes.

Developing Mentor: Sykes makes Swoff play the bugle.

Conscious Agreement to the Journey: I’m still here.

Magical Gift (becoming a sniper):

JFK shot.

Training in the assault course.

You are now snipers; I was hooked; Swoff fires the shot.

Push to the First Threshold: listening to the Iraqi statement on TV.

Belly of the Whale: watching Apocalypse Now.

Journey to the First Threshold: on the aircraft.

Goodbye to the Old Self: stewardess waves goodbye

First Threshold: arriving in Iraq.

Threshold Guardian: Kazinski’s speech; the picture of the Kurdish child; kick some Iraqi ass.

Outer Cave: where did the Iraqi’s get their weapons from? Forget politics; we’re here, all the rest is bullshit.

Middle Cave / Meeting Allies: talking about the girlfriends back home in the tent.

Inner Cave: putting on their masks; running in the suits; hrydrating, dehydrating, patrolling the empty desert.

Developing Characters and Relationships: the scorpion fight.

Inner Cave: Waiting in the desert; masturbation; cleaning their rifles; studying the phillipino mail order catalogue etc.

Wondering what she’s doing now.

Trial and Transformation 1:

Outer Cave: Sykes tells them how to respond to reporters; complaints against free speech, that’s un-American etc.

Middle Cave: Talking to the reporters; Swoff admits he’s scared.

Inner Cave: Putting on and playing football in their NBC masks.

Transformation: Taking off their masks; getting naked; Sykes sends the reporters away.

Developing Characters and Relationships: Sykes makes Swoff et al take all that shit down.

Trial and Transformation 2:

Cortez has a son; Kristina has found a new male friend who’s a good listener.

Thinking about his girlfriend in the shower.

Not being able to jerk off in the toilet.

Swoff calls home and is cut off.

Swoff wakes up and clutches his throat; “..you’re making some weird sounds man…”

Transformation: Swoff wants see what it feels like to watch somebody else fuck your girlfriend.

Trial and Transformation 3:

Outer Cave: Swoff gets some “good shit” from the soldier who writes the major’s love letters.

Middle Cave: The party.

Inner Cave: The fire blows the explosives.

Transformation: Swoff is made a Private.

Developing Characters and Relationships: Swoff is made to burn the shit; the senior officer leaves a present.

New Self: Swoff threatens to kill the sausage boy.

Resisting the New Self: Swoff apologises.

Foreshadow of the Final Conflict:

The Arabs appear in the desert.

Developing Characters and Relationships: insulting the Arab passing in the car.

Meeting the Oracle: they’re going to the mother of all battles.

Resisting the Journey to the Sword: resistance to taking the pills.

Shape Shifter Revealed:

Digging their holes.

The aircraft fly by; the war will move too fast.

Troy is being thrown out. Swoff told to keep him from fucking up.

New Self: Troy is branded.

Near Death Experience:

The war comes to them; Swoff pisses himself.

Retrieving the battery.

Pursuing the Iraqis.

Getting hit by friendly fire.

Swoff sees the charred remains; throwing up.

Pulled forward by the burning oil wells.

Digging their holes in the oily sand; the oil burns Fowler’s face.

Rebirth: preventing Fowler.

Rebirth: Swoff calms the horse.

Atonement with the Father: Sykes sits down and talks to Swoff; he loves is job.

Apotheosis: Sykes and Troy sent out to see Kazinsky; “..fucking show me..”.

Ultimate Boon: Swoff and Troy have an Iraqi in their sight; permission given for the JFK shot.

Refusal:

The major denies their request to take the shot.

Troy argues with the Major for the perfect shot.

Magic Flight:

The planes take out the site.

Rescue from Without: Troy’s already got his papers; have to get back.

Crossing the Return Threshold: Going back to camp over the dunes.

Master of Two Worlds:

The party around the fire; this shit is over; shooting their guns in the sky.

Freedom to Live / Challenge Resolutions: Returning home as heroes; meeting the Vietnam Vet on the bus; his girlfriend has left him; doing their various jobs; Fergis arrives; Troy’s funeral;

(Loop): narrative.

FADE OUT: the Jarheads.

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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. His specialities include Knowledge Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached at http://managing-creativity.com/

Penso que a evoluo e a superioridade de algum ser, seja humano ou no, nunca foi desejado. A mitologia de vrias civilizaes demonstram a existncia de seres poderosos, muitos que viveriam em algum lugar longe dos mortais comuns.

Alguns autores procuram mostrar nas suas histrias as justificativas para tais seres. Como na série clssica de Star Trek, onde eles visitam um planeta que encontram seres que utilizaram a sua tecnologia para subjugar os gregos, eles tinham os nomes dos deuses adorados pelos gregos.

Isaac Isimov procurou mostrar o terror que os humanos teriam em primeiro pelos robs com aparncia humanas, bem como de dos colonizadores que buscaram acelerar a sua evoluo.

O ser humano tem o mesmo medo quando se fala nos clones e na engenharia genética. Ele teme que haver a possibilidade de haver uma diferena nos poder igualitrio hoje existente. O medo de quebrar as regras que mantém o pode atual, baseado no dinheiro, conhecimento e famlia.

A era dos Clones
No compreendo o medo pelos Clones. Imagino que seja como foi descrito nos quadrinhos do Super Homem, onde os Kriptonianos tinham pelo menos 3 clones seus em um grande armazém. Ento, todos levavam uma vida completamente leviana, no se preocupando danos ao corpo. Quando acontecia algum acidente, rapidamente se escolhia um dos clones para utilizar suas partes como peas sobressalentes.

A evoluo protegida
A humanidade se tornou a raa dominante, seja pela vontade de Deus ou pela evoluo deste planeta, porque sempre procurou vencer as dificuldades impostas pelo ambiente e quando o seu corpo no conseguia, ele criava ferramentas para conseguir vence-las.

Durante milhares de anos, o conhecimento de frmulas ou formas da construo de alguma ferramenta, foi guardado a sete chaves. Somente poucos iniciados tinham acesso, que muitas vezes esse conhecimento era passado somente de pai para filho. Isso era a segurana do diferencial perante o resto da humanidade.

A evoluo operria
Desde o século de 17, quando o homem comeou a compartilhar conhecimentos antes herméticos, visando o treinamento de uma classe operria mais apta para o mercado de trabalho. Antes, as universidades, escolas entre outros tipos de meios de aprendizado eram restritos as castas dominantes. A necessidade de trabalhadores com maior capacitao para operar as mquinas da revoluo industrial, fez com que a torneiras do conhecimento fossem passadas para o resto da humanidade.

Hoje vemos a necessidade de que qualquer pessoa, sejam até os ndios, precisam saber de tudo um pouco. Sabemos a posio do nosso planeta no nosso sistema estelar, bem como a sua posio relativa na galxia entre bilhes de outras. Sabemos também sobre as energias e meios de transporte entre outros conhecimentos que antes poderiam ser tidos como bruxarias.

Tudo igual. Eu, voc e o resto da humanidade
Todos os seres humanos normais, isto é, que no tem nenhuma aberrao ou doena que afete o cérebro, pode aprender, crescer pessoal e profissionalmente. No h diferenas entre eu e voc que l este texto. Somos iguais. Podem até existir diferenas de poder com base no dinheiro, mas somos iguais.

Toda a sociedade humana est baseada nos padres, por isso que esto sempre procurando saber os padres de cada etnia, de cada pas e suas regies. Quando voc consegue saber isso, voc poder sentir ou até ter algum certo poder sobre um determinado grupo. O poder poder ser somente o de fazer com que desejem e comprem mais produtos de uma marca, mas tudo é mensurvel, calculvel.

Imaginemos um humano superior?
O grande medo de todos, est na possibilidade de que com a engenharia genética, seja possvel criar um super humano. No digo um ser que poder voar ou ter a viso de raio X. Digo uma pessoa com caractersticas bem acima de média, como uma memria estupenda, capacidade de abstrao e clculo, uma fora superior e quem sabe uma maior longevidade.

O mede est que esse super humano possa se tornar um ditador, e com isso subjugar a raa humana, quebrando todo o ciclo de poder existente. Tudo isso, porque é sabido que ainda no é possvel mudar a parte genética de um corpo formado, apesar que existem teorias onde se usaria um retro-vrus para mudar a parte genética de células na sua prxima diviso celular.

Esse Super Homem existir?
Eu No tenho dvida que a humanidade s tem um caminho, que é a evoluo.

Alguns autores de quadrinhos, colocam que a necessidade de trabalhadores para ambientes especiais, como em ambientes com alta temperaturas, altas doses de radiao, baixa presso atmosféricas e ai vai. Para isso, poderemos ns, pobres humanos fazermos o trabalho sujo, ou usar robs, ou ainda, mudar a genética do homem e criar uma nova raa de seres, que tero suas vidas nesses ambientes que so hostis para ns.

Penso que a humanidade sempre procurou manter o seu status quo. Sempre procurou manter o poder segurando a informao. Muitas vezes a informao era o uso de armas e a persuaso de unir homens em um exército, e isso, no meu ver foi uma forma de evoluo. Ento, porque NO existir um ser superior? Eu acredito que isso é somente uma questo de tempo. No h como fugir disso.

Os prs e os contras dessa evoluo?
Nessa sanha de manter o poder, a humanidade sempre segmentou seus semelhantes. Separou em castas, raas e até por regies. Pode ter certeza que os futuros seres superiores sero também segmentados. Inicialmente eles sero utilizados como eficientes trabalhadores, mas logo um ver que tem mais poder e pronto, uma revoluo acontecer.

O filme Gataca fala sobre uma sociedade altamente alterada geneticamente, na realidade, fala de uma sociedade que NO h seres normais, ou como eles falam, inferiores. Os pais preferem escolher as caractersticas dos seus futuros filhos. Um fato interessante do filme, est na qualificao pessoal baseada no cdigo genético e no somente nas suas habilidades, tanto que as mulheres utilizam um servio que mostra as caractersticas do homem de seu interesse.

E os acidentes?
O mundo foi um ecossistema fechado, isto é, ele procura sempre manter um padro de manuteno da vida, mesmo quando acontece um caos, como j aconteceu diversas vezes durante a existncia do nosso planeta. Os catalisadores do caos anterior, foram cometas, mudanas bruscas no clima, movimentos tectnicos etc. Porque NO poderemos ter algum acidente genético? A liberao de algum vrus letal para os humanos? A criao de algum super ser com necessidades anormais, como os vampiros do filme Blade II?

T e ai?
Sei que no h volta para o que est acontecendo. Sempre foi assim, desde a descoberta da primeira arma, passando para o fogo, domesticao dos animais e das plantaes, até a descoberta dos medicamentos, o uso das mquinas e agora a engenharia genética.

Logo teremos alimentos melhorados geneticamente, animais e quem sabe, voc também poder ter um clonezinho de algum animal, como no filme o 6o dia?

Sei que a mdia continuar reclamando, os ativistas também… cada um visando manter o seu dominio. Podero alguns serem patrocinados por interesses financeiros. A luta no ser fcil, mas como a hoje chamada revoluo industrial mudou o mundo que a no queria.

About the Author

Analista de Sistemas, especialista de projetos para Internet desde 1993, projetista e mantenedor de diversos sites no Brasil, como os sites da FAMEM e Porto do Itaqui.

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