The Adventure to the Anderson Sisters House Hocus Pocus is a word that most powerful witches or people use when they see a magical thing happen whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing. The film Hocus Pocus is about a boy named Max who brings his sister, Dani, and the girl he likes named Allison on an adventure. The adventure started when he heard a story in class about a boy named Thackery Binx. Thackery was trying to save his sister, who was taken by the sister witches. When he went to the house to find her, the sister witches turned him into a black cat. After hearing the story, Max went to the sister witch house with the girls and jokingly lit the candle. This caused the sister witches to come back to the house. The rest of the movie shows …show more content…
In the film Hocus Pocus the directors use the Journey and the Adventurer archetypes to show that as humans we would sacrifice our lives for the one's we love because we can’t imagine …show more content…
In Hocus Pocus the director Kenny Ortega is good at making people emotionally scarred throughout the movie. In the movie Max says “Officer, officer we need your help. We broke into the Anderson sister’s house and we stole the spell book, and lit the black candle. Now the sister witches are back.” At the beginning of Hocus Pocus, the three characters are faced with their first challenge when they encounter a fake police officer. This posed a struggle because they didn’t have a trustworthy adult that believed them. The second challenge came when they took it upon themselves to enter the graveyard. Here, they were attacked by zombies, which took them by surprise. Their plan was to save Thackery which was interrupted by this encounter. The final challenge, occurred when they were faced with getting rid of the witches. This wasn’t an easy task as the witches put up a good fight but in the end, they were able to conquer the witches and bring Thackery
Tens of thousands of stories fit into the hero’s journey archetype created by Christopher Volger. Out of these, a large number of them are stories with remakes that share notable resemblances in their heroes’ journeys. However, none of these quite match those very strong similarities found between Homer’s The Odyssey and Joel Coens’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? These stories share crucial components of the hero’s journey whether it be “crossing the first threshold,” where the main characters of both stories begin their long adventure that transforms them into heroes; “the supreme ordeal,” where the main characters are both deprived of the opportunity to get home sooner; or “return with elixir,” where Odysseus and Ulysses both return to their homes alive the comfort of their wives. In their major plot points, the novel The Odyssey and the motion picture O Brother convey obvious similarities in key elements of their heroes’ journeys such as “crossing the first threshold,” “the supreme ordeal,” and “return with elixir.”
In the Hero’s journey, The Odyssey, the main protagonist, Odysseus, changes in a way which helps him gain self-knowledge. Odysseus ' experiences transformed his personality from how he was in the beginning to the end, by leading him through a heroic journey, also known as a quest. The real reason for a quest never involves the stated reason, and this is no different with Odysseus. As the story developed, many of Odysseus’ sides were exposed through the challenges he faced. Out of the countless dangers and obstacles every step back home, him and his crew have only acquired minimal character changes. Even though they are minimal, they are those which take many decades to achieve.
Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the films Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Watership Down, and Trainspotting are all versions of The Hero’s Journey, consequently demonstrating just how prevalent these archetypes have become in modern cinema. And that mythology and storytelling are important parts of each culture because they prevent the darkness in our hearts from spreading.
To fully appreciate the significance of the plot one must fully understand the heroic journey. Joseph Campbell identified the stages of the heroic journey and explains how the movie adheres meticulously to these steps. For example, the first stage of the hero’s journey is the ordinary world (Campbell). At the beginning, the structure dictates that the author should portray the protagonist in their ordinary world, surrounded by ordinary things and doing ordinary tasks so that the author might introduce the reasons that the hero needs the journey in order to develop his or her character or improve his or her life (Vogler 35). The point of this portrayal is to show the audience what the protagonist’s life is currently like and to show what areas of his or her life are conflicted or incomplete. When the call to adventure occurs, the protagonist is swept away into another world, one that is full of adventure, danger, and opportunities to learn what needs to be learned. T...
Dorothy, the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion leaves the Emerald City and head back through the forest. The wicked witch of the west commands her army of flying monkeys to bring Dorothy and Toto to her. She warns them to be careful with the handling of the ruby slippers; these slippers in her possession would give her ultimate power. The army of monkeys, flies through the sky, grab Dorothy and fly away with her. They also grab Toto, leaving the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion behind. Dorothy is not afraid of the witch, but begs her for Toto. The witched bargains with Dorothy for the ruby slippers. Dorothy remembers being told by Glenda not to remove the slippers from her feet. However, she relents and offers the ruby slippers
“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, and the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.” (Phil Cousineau) The Hero's Journey has been engaged in stories for an immemorial amount of time. These stories target typical connections that help us relate to ourselves as well as the “real world”.
Love can make anybody do the unthinkable whether good or bad. It can make any man or woman realize their potential, successes and even failures. That is particularly true when looking at the novel Crossing the Heart of Africa: The Odyssey of Love and Adventure written by Julian Smith. In this novel, Smith tells the stories of two men, Ewart Grogan and Julian himself who embarked on a journey to cross Africa each with a mission they wanted to accomplish. Amazingly, these true stories of these two men have been intertwined and bring out a brilliant documentation of the happenings in their lives during the adventure. Interestingly, these two journeys took place a century apart and were each meant to accomplish a different reason but all in the
There you look at our wonderful heroes, astonished by their accomplishments, wondering how such perfect people can exist in this world. But the actual truth about heroes will certainly surprise you. Sure, if you examine heroic figures like Albert Einstein on the outside, you might conclude that they have some imperfections; flyaway hair perhaps. But then, behind that outer shell of theirs, sits something incredible; something powerful, something indescribable, something that makes them flawed. But yet again, you do not know what these flaws are since you have been prolonged exposed to the idea of ‘perfect heroes’. Also, in Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey Archetype” there is a step inside the initiation which specifically describes that
…The tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity. …The underlying struggle is that of individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society. … Tragedy…is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.
While they were on the island they killed the momma sow, murdered Piggy , and stalked and tried to kill Ralph. The boys killed a momma sow who was feeding her babies & did not care because they thought it was a game. In the second paragraph, one of the boys who was now a savage threw a rock on Piggy while he was making a speech after Ralph & Jack had just fought. In the third paragraph, the boys tried to hunt & kill one more boy, Ralph, Ralph was the leader of the group until Jack took control & now Jack’s only goal is to kill Ralph. The boys lost their innocence & will never get it back because of what happened on the
Watching a film, one can easily recognize plot, theme, characterization, etc., but not many realize what basic principle lies behind nearly every story conceived: the hero’s journey. This concept allows for a comprehensive, logical flow throughout a movie. Once the hero’s journey is thoroughly understood, anyone can pick out the elements in nearly every piece. The hero’s journey follows a simple outline. First the hero in question must have a disadvantaged childhood. Next the hero will find a mentor who wisely lays out his/her prophecy. Third the hero will go on a journey, either literal or figurative, to find him/herself. On this journey the hero will be discouraged and nearly quit his/her quest. Finally, the hero will fulfill the prophecy and find his/herself, realizing his/her full potential. This rubric may be easy to spot in epic action films, but if upon close inspection is found in a wide array of genres, some of which are fully surprising.
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The Maze Runner is a 2014 mystery/science fiction film that can be viewed from an archetypal perspective. An archetype can be described as a pattern that can and is copied and recurring symbols or characters. The concept of archetypes came from Carl Jung a psychiatrist who believed that all cultures use archetypes to build stories without communicating to each other about them. Two groups of archetypes are the character and symbolic archetypes. The film The Maze Runner should be analyzed through an archetypal perspective because it has character and symbolic archetypes.
The Hero’s journey is a structure which all stories are created from and with which the structure provides the core for creating amazing stories. The Hero’s journey consists of twelve steps the Ordinary World, The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Meeting the Mentor, Crossing the Threshold, Tests/Allies/Enemies, Approach to The Inmost Cave, Ordeal, Reward (Seizing The Sword), The Road Back, Resurrection, and Return with The Elixir. All of the stories and plays we have heard go along with the outline from the Hero’s journey the order may sometimes change but at the very least it is a common structure used by most writers. When looking at the story The Mercy Seat through the lens of Ben Harcourt we can examine each of the steps in depth.
Tragedy often reveals a very basic message; whether or not actions are thought before hand, actions hold consequences that must be recognized and tolerated. Drama always circulates around a hero or protagonist in a tragic epic, whose sufferings are brought about by his or her actions and creates a standpoint in relation to them.