Film Analysis: A Hero's Journey

A Hero’s Journey

Joseph Campbell was an American psychologist and mythological researcher who wrote a famous book called The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book you could see the many common patterns going through hero myths and stories. After researching for many years, Campbell found out that every hero quest has some basic stages that goes along with it. A movie that follows this monomyth is Mulan, when she took her dad’s place in the war and saved china from the Huns.

There are eleven elements of the monomyth, but in this movie it only shows ten. You start in the ordinary world, where the heroine exists in a world that is considered normal to the people that live there, the heroine is usually considered the odd ball from where they are. Mulan was the outcast before her

The hero usually begins there journey by being called away from there ordinary life, Mulan was called to adventure when china was at war with the Huns the males from all the families were recruited for war, but Mulan’s father was old and disabled so she tries to go in his place. Unlike other hero storied, Mulan never refused the quest she was so keen on going and accepted the call to adventure. Accepting the call you would be advancing into the next stage of the journey witch would be entering the unknown, where they embark on their journey and had entered a world that they are not familiar with. Mulan entered the unknown when she went from being a peaceful girl to becoming ping, and would be training with other men in a camp for the battle between the Huns and China.

In most stories the hero usually has somebody to guy them through their journey, they are called a supernatural aid. A Supernatural Aid is are people or mythical creatures that help the heroine throughout their journey, in Mulan, Shang is her mentor that helps her and the rest of the