Friday, May 14, 2010

Hero's Journey in Hook

Ordinary world: Peter Banning is a lawyer. His life is work centered and his family is starting to feel the neglect. Afraid of flying.
Call to Adventure: Invitation to visit Granny Wendy over 10 years
Refusal of the Call: Keeps ignoring Granny Wendy's invatations
Meeting with the Mentor: Goes to London, speaks with Granny Wendy.
Crossing the Threshold: Children kidnapped, Granny Wendy tells him the stories are true and he is taken from the nursery by Tinkerbell.
Tests, Allies, Enemies: When he gets to Neverland he meets Pirates, and the Lost Boys. Tink is given 3 days to make him Peter Pan.
Approach: Finding his happy thought, learning to crow.
Ordeal: His son, Jack, chooses Hook over him.
Reward: He fights Hook "Dark and sinister man, have at thee!" and his son comes back (after Rufio dies).
The Road Back: Flying back to the reall world with his kids, leaving Tubbs in charge.
Resurrection: Waking up in London - he hears the Tinker of the bottles and thinks it's Tink, he tries to fly but can't.
Return with Elixar: He returns with a new found belief, a better husband and father.

Hero: Peter Banning/Pan
Mentor: Granny Wendy, Tinkerbell
Threshold Gaurdian: Rufio, Hook
Herald: Tink, Granny Wendy, Toodles
Shapeshifter: Hook
Shadow: Croc clock
Trickster: Hook, Rufio, Pan

3 comments:

M said...

I liked this too. I haven't seen the whole movie, but this pieces together what I have seen very well. I liked how you added some quotes to make it more obvious what you meant. I also like your idea of the ordeal; it pulls at my heartstrings.

Nelson said...

Great example of a contrast between the ordinary world and the special world. This is the one with Robin Williams, right? Good stuff.

Paige Anne Stratford said...

Robin Williams, Dame Maggie Smith, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews, and the guy that plays Rufio is the voice for Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation in the T.V. series Avatar: The Last Airbender :D