![]() He talks to snakes, he lives under a cupboard, and, as Uncle Vernon ominously implies, strange things happen whenever he's around. ![]() In this world, Harry's a grade-A outcast with a side order of weirdo. Welcome to life with the Dursleys: they make "ordinary" look "heavenly." ![]() For simplicity's sake, we're going to look at this as a stand-alone story, instead of one part of a larger saga. You can look at the film on its own-as a single beginning/middle/end story-or you could look at it as Chapter One of a seven-chapter (or eight-movie) saga, which means it probably just encapsulates the first four of five stops on the Joseph Campbell Express. In the case of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Hero's Journey is actually divided in two. Want more? We have an entire Online Course devoted to the hero's journey.) We're working with those 12 stages, so take a look. He wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined the 17 stages of a mythological hero's journey.Ībout half a century later, Christopher Vogler condensed those stages down to 12 in an attempt to show Hollywood how every story ever written should-and, uh, does -follow Campbell's pattern. ![]() ![]() Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or her swag? Yeah, scholar Joseph Campbell noticed first-in 1949. ![]()
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