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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.]] |
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.]] |
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Christopher Booker's ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' calls this "Voyage and Return". |
Christopher Booker's ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' calls this '''"Voyage and Return"'''. |
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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. |
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. |
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* The 1965 film ''[[The Great Race]]'' is about a road race that takes the cast from New York to Paris. |
* The 1965 film ''[[The Great Race]]'' is about a road race that takes the cast from New York to Paris. |
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* ''[[Labyrinth]]'': Sarah's ill-considered words force her into a journey through the Goblin King's labyrinth. The trip back is much easier. |
* ''[[Labyrinth]]'': Sarah's ill-considered words force her into a journey through the Goblin King's labyrinth. The trip back is much easier. |
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* ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'' is a more metaphorical version of "There and Back". The heroine enters a new world (her new job at the magazine) finds her normal behavior patterns won't work |
* ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'' is a more metaphorical version of "There and Back". The heroine enters a new world (her new job at the magazine), where she finds her normal behavior patterns won't work - she successfully adapts, but {{spoiler|discovers that the job is making her a bad person}} and quits. |
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* ''[[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. |
* ''[[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. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', where Scrooge travels through time instead of through space, returning to his home a changed man. |
* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', where Scrooge travels through time instead of through space, returning to his home a changed man. |
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==[[Live-Action TV]]== |
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* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'', which is based on ''The Wizard of Oz''... only in that, the ending differs. |
* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'', which is based on ''The Wizard of Oz''... only in that, the ending differs. |
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