"There and Back" Story: Difference between revisions

The journey is usually treated as a major plotline, if not ''the'' main plot itself, and the secondary and tertiary locations and characters that our group encounters are at most a source of smaller subplots, which are usually resolved shortly before that location is left - after all, it's about the journey, not the destination. That said, if a specific subplot ''isn't'' resolved immediately, [[Chekhov's Gun|expect them to come up sometime down the]] [[Stealth Pun|road.]]

 

 

This plotline is a key fixture of many works of [[Children's Literature]] and [[Coming of Age Stories]]. [[The Big Race]] is a frequent form of this, as is many a [[Vacation Episode|Vacation]] or [[Road Trip Episode]] ([[Road Movie|including the movies]]). Expect "[[Are We There Yet?]]" to be asked quite often.

* The 1965 film ''[[The Great Race]]'' is about a road race that takes the cast from New York to Paris.

* ''[[Labyrinth]]'': Sarah's ill-considered words force her into a journey through the Goblin King's labyrinth. The trip back is much easier.

* ''[[Inception]]'' shows the joyful exploration of the dreamworlds in flashbacks of the {{spoiler|fifty years Cobb and Mal spent in limbo}}, and Cobb is certainly a different man at the end of the movie than in the beginning.

** Don't forget the training of Ariadne where she got to romp around in Cobb's dreams, an adventure that produced the now iconic image of a city being folded in half.

* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', where Scrooge travels through time instead of through space, returning to his home a changed man.

 

* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'', which is based on ''The Wizard of Oz''... only in that, the ending differs.