Dane's Arc - Hero's Journey

Act One: Separation

Ordinary World

Call to Adventure (1)
Disruption & Awakening
- Bargain w/out Knowing
- Refusal of the Call (2)
- Supernatural Aid (3)
- Meeting the Mentor
- Meeting the White Spirit

Act Two: Supreme Ordeal

Special World

First Threshold (4)
Resistance & Commitment/Transformation Begins
- Threshold Guardians
- Whale's belly (5)
- Enemies
- Allies (Helper)
- Obstacles

Road of Trials/Tests (6)
Challenges and Temptations
- Tests challenge & prepare hero
- Consciousness expands
- Helpers arrive as needed
- Synchronistic events

Nadir/Abyss (Death & Rebirth)
Supreme Ordeal
- Meeting with the goddess (7)
- Woman as Temptress (8)
- Atonement with Father (9)
- Revelation brings new perspective

Transformation
Revelation brings Rebirth
- Transformed perspective gives birth to the transformed self
- New attitudes, beliefs and behaviors emerge
- Self is reborn

Apotheosis (10)
Final death and rebirth
- Ultimate Boon (11) (gift of the goddess)
- Consolidate experience
- Build new meaning

Return Threshold (15)
Challenges of the return
- Refusal of the return (12)
- Magic flight (13)
- Rescue from without (14)
- Final challenge

Return
- Master of the two worlds (16)
- Freedom to live (17)

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Campbell Star Wars The Matrix
I: Departure
The call to adventure Princess Leia's message "Follow the white rabbit"
Refusal of the call Must help with the harvest Neo won't climb out window
Supernatural aid Obi-wan rescues Luke from sandpeople Trinity extracts the "bug" from Neo
Crossing the first threshold Escaping Tatooine Neo is taken out of the Matrix for the first time
The belly of the whale Trash compactor Torture room
II: Initiation
The road of trials Lightsaber practice Sparring with Morpheus
The meeting with the goddess Princess Leia (wears white, in earlier scripts was a "sister" of a mystic order) The Oracle
Temptation away from the true path Luke is tempted by the Dark Side Cypher (the failed messiah) is tempted by the world of comfortable illusions
Atonement with the Father Darth and Luke reconcile Neo rescues and comes to agree (that he's The One) with his father-figure, Morpheus
Apotheosis (becoming god-like) Luke becomes a Jedi Neo becomes The One
The ultimate boon Death Star destroyed Humanity's salvation now within reach
III: Return
Refusal of the return "Luke, come on!" Luke wants to stay to avenge Obi-Wan Neo fights agent instead of running
The magic flight Millennium Falcon "Jacking in"
Rescue from without Han saves Luke from Darth Trinity saves Neo from agents
Crossing the return threshold Millennium Falcon destroys pursuing TIE fighters Neo fights Agent Smith
Master of the two worlds Victory ceremony Neo's declares victory over machines in final phone call
Freedom to live Rebellion is victorious over Empire Humans are victorious over machines
Common Mythic Elements
Two Worlds (mundane and special) Planetside vs. The Death Star Reality vs. The Matrix
The Mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi Morpheus
The Oracle Yoda The Oracle
The Prophecy Luke will overthrow the Emperor Morpheus will find (and Trinity will fall for) "The One"
Failed Hero Biggs In an early version of the script, Morpheus once believed that Cypher was "The One"
Wearing Enemy's Skin Luke and Han wear stormtrooper outfits Neo jumps into agent's skin
Shapeshifter (the Hero isn't sure if he can trust this character) Han Solo Cypher
Animal familiar R2-D2, Chewbacca N/A
Chasing a lone animal into the enchanted wood (the animal usually gets away) Luke follows R2 into the Jundland Wastes; The Millennium Falcon follows a lone TIE fighter into range of the Death Star Neo "follows the white rabbit" to the nightclub where he meets Trinity
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