Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Hero Journey

Prince of Persia

OW:  Dastan is a boy who is living on the streets at the start of the movie. He lives by just going around but then his friend is being hurt by an unfair guard.  He trys to stop him and by doing this gets the kings attention and becomes a prince of persia.

Meeting with the mentor: after helping taking a city for the countries armies he meets with his father and his father talks with him.  Talking about how he is a good man.  But then tells him how a great man acts.

Call to adventure: His father dies and he is blamed.  He must run or be killed by his brothers.  He also has the princess of the kingdom they had just barley taken.

Refusal to Call: He does not listen to princess about the dagger and wants to go and see his fathers funeral in secret.

Crossing the Threshold:  He crosses the threshold when he realizes that no matter what he does his brothers will think that he killed his father and there is no way to prove it.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Dastan goes to meet with his uncle who he thinks is the only man he thinks he can trust. But then he is betrayed and has to face a large amount of guards and his brothers.

Approach: After fighting his way out of the city he decides the only person he can trust is the princess and the only direction he can go is to help her return a sacred dagger which his uncle is after.

Ordeal: Dastan is caught by one of his older brothers and he convinces him that he did not kill his father. Right after that assassins come attack and his brother is killed.  Now he goes to his other brother convincing him the same showing the dagger he has can set back time he stabs himself and kills himself hoping his brother will set back time.

Reward: He is brought back and is able to fight his uncle which then sets time back to the day when they took the city with the magic dagger.

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