Mythology - The Language of Hollywood
Mythology and the Visual Language of Movies Mythology is the language of symbols, the language of the senses. Pictures, visions, sounds, sensations, feelings, anything you can describe with words or represent symbolically in physical form comes from the world of myth, the world of universal archetypes . Storytelling goes hand in hand with mythology, because it draws from the same symbolic language that myths do. The language of myth is the language of movies, and this is how the Hollywood Formula was originally developed. The Hollywood Formula, as we will refer to it on this site, is a structural model , like a picture frame or an artist canvas. It is a symbolic receptacle that will help us turn our creative imagination into a work of art, which, in this case, is a movie. The Hollywood Formula is modeled after literary classics, including timeless works of art like the Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Mesopotamia ...