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Joseph Campbell has spent his outstanding life finding and mapping out the myths from all over the world that seemed to be built from the same “elementary ideas.” Gradually, all there is, is one story being told and retold in all sorts of different languages, times, names, and costumes, all stories are the same, which he named “The hero’s Journey,” or the “monomyth.” Campbell had written a book called The hero with a thousand faces which gathered the themes behind countless hero stories into one universal structure. His hero’s journey framework is now also applicable to movies and had indeed served as both inspiration and blueprint for his friend George Luca’s movie Star Wars. Chris Vogler a former Disney story analyst worked out a system for analyzing stories based on Campbell’s work. He then published a book called The Writer’s Journey, which is now used as the basis for many screenwriters. My objective is to adapt the movie Finding Nemo to Vogler’s movie version of the hero’s journey to describe the sequence. And to see if all the The first stage starts with the departure, which is the first thirty minutes of the movie. This is where they introduce you to the hero, the problem that is throwing him out of balance, how he is called to move out of his ordinary world and start on the mission or quest. He then meets his mentor who is going to provide him with guidance. The hero then leaves the ordinary world and enters the “special world.” In the movie Finding Nemo, we meet Marlin a neurotic clown fish who loses his mate and most of their spawn after an intense shark attack in the opening of the movie. Miraculously, one egg survives; he names it Nemo, honoring his mate’s last wish, and vows to protect him with his life. As Nemo grows old enough to go to school, Marlin is deathly afraid to let Nemo leave the anomie they call home, though it’s clearly time for Nemo to start school. Marlin relents, but he finds himself unable to let Nemo out his sight for more than a minute without rushing to his side. When he finds Nemo venturing out into unsafe waters on a dare from his friends, he goes for him and only makes Nemo head off to make good on his friends’ dare, only to his luck gets captured by tropical fish scuba divers.
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