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Christopher Vogler is a Hollywood development executive, screenwriter, author and educator, best known for working with Disney and his screenwriting guide, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers, from 2007.

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Christopher Vogler

Screenwriter and author in Missouri, US

Christopher Vogler (born 1949) is a Hollywooddevelopment executive, screenwriter, author and educator, best known for working with Disney and his screenwriting guide, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers, from 2007.

Early life and education

Born in Missouri, Vogler studied filmmaking at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Career

Vogler has worked for Disney studios, Fox 2000 pictures, and Warner Bros. in the development department. He contributed story material to the Disney animated feature The Lion King.^[1]

He has also taught in the USC School of Cinema-Television, Division of Animation and Digital Arts as well as at UCLA extension. He is President of the company Storytech Literary Consulting. It was founded in 1999 and its Vice President, Brad Schreiber, consults on scripts and books, using Vogler's approach.^[2]

Campbell and Writer's Journey

Vogler was inspired by the writings of mythologist Joseph Campbell, particularly The Hero with a T

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“As a kid, I was so moved by these things,” said author Christopher Vogler about the world of cinema. “What made stories so exciting? I followed that trail to Film School at USC, where I encountered some of the ideas of Joseph Campbell.”

Vogler’s Professor encouraged him to further explore the mythological signs that stood out to him, which led him to Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. This collection broke down the “universal motif of adventure” that runs through essentially all storytelling.

“This is what I was looking for,” said Vogler. “The secret code. The algorithm for creating stories and the human desire to be good or be better.” Not long after this discovery, the writer got a job evaluating scripts for big studios.

“I got to test this at a little bit of a distance because I wasn’t writing [screenplays], I was evaluating them, so it gave me a unique perspective. I could test out these ideas, see the variations, see the psychology, and then I could address modern stories.”

Christopher Volger

Vogler turned this idea into a 7-page memo that summariz

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Christopher Vogler

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