Sunday 30 September 2018

The Hero's Journey: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief



(Fig1)-Ordinary world

  • Ordinary world: Roman Gallery Trip.
  • Call to adventure: Percy accused of stealing lightning bolt, Mr Brumer and Grover say they need him.
  • Refusal of the call: Percy starts trying to refuse following Grover.
  • Supernatural aid: Grover half mythological goat says he is Percy's protector.
  • Crossing the first threshold: Going through the gate and killing the minotaur.
  • Road of trials: The demigod camp training
  • Meeting with the Goddess: Meeting Annabeth daughter of Athena
  • Woman as temptress: Grover and Haydes mistress or this could relate to Medusa who tries to tempt you to look at her. Or could be said that the Las Vegas lotus flower givers are temptresses too.
  • Atonement with father: Zeus
  • Apotheosis (God-like): When Percy gets his lightning bolt and becomes the 'big shot of Olympus.'
  • Ultimate boon (reward):
  • Refusal of return: Although Percy has visited home he prefers to stay primarily with his new life.
  • Magic Flight: Fighting using the winged converses 'literal' Retrieving items.
  • Rescues from without: Percy Rescues his mother from Haydes who wants the Lightning bolt from Percy.
  • The Crossing of the return threshold: Percy Helps mother and Puts Medusa's Head in the fridge for his abusive step dad to rid of him for him and her.
  • Master of two worlds: Percy masters both worlds by becoming a hero in one and helping his mum in ordinary.
  • Freedom to Live: Percy is granted the freedom to live how he wants not by his step dad's restrictions and abuse.

(Fig2)-Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell did the hero with a thousand faces, it is basically this idea that in a lot of films like this the hero is still the same its just different in there own universe for example Harry Potter and the The Hobbit. And this image relates to the bullet point list above.



(Fig3)

Bibliography

Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17200000/at-the-museum-pjo-the-lightning-thief-movie-17283316-1262-548.jpg 
 Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://www.veronicasicoe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Heros-Journey.png [Accessed 30 Sep. 2018].
Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91F9l37QbzL._SL1500_.jpg 

2 comments:

  1. Hi Georgia. In the lecture I mentioned not to 'list' the steps of the Hero's Journey. Instead, write about them and describe what happens. Remember your reader may not have seen the film. See Tom's as an example...

    http://thomassherwood.blogspot.com/2018/09/film-review-django-unchained-heroes.html

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