188 Stages of the Hero's Journey You Need to Know About: Example, Papillon (1973) Deconstructed

From our deconstruction of hundreds of HollywoodMentor: our job is to process you, to break you
blockbusters at Hero's Journey is the template uponphysically, mentally and spiritually.Rules: masturbate as
which the vast majority of successful stories andlittle as possible etc.Outer Cave:Marker of
Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALLTransformation: counting 5 steps to start.Resisting the
of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed areTransformation: we eat everything we get; press
based on this template.Understanding this template is aups.Marker / Foreshadow of the Transformation: how
priority for story or screenwriters.The Hero'sdo I look?Polarization Decreases / Transformation:
Journey:a) Attempts to tap into unconsciousDega sends a coconut.Time Shift: the old man next
expectations the audience has regarding what a storydoor is gone.Resisting the Transformation: I'm still here
is and how it should be told.b) Gives the writer moreyou bastards.Physical Change: the bat bites the
structural elements than simply three or four acts, plotleg.Middle Cave:Forced to Transform: the warden
points, mid point and so on.c) Interpreted metaphorically,wants to know who sent the coconut; half rations and
laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number ofno light.Push to the New Self: I accuse you of a
varied stories to be created.and more...EXAMPLE:wasted life; the penalty is death.MIDPOINT: Developing
Papillon (1973) - Hero's Journey [basicCharacters and Relationships / Decreased Polarization:
deconstruction][can also be deconstructed with DegaDega worried that Papi will tell; I would.Transforming:
as the Supernatural Aid]FADE IN: context: penallaughing in the rain.Inner Cave:Resisting the
colony.Goodbye to the Ordinary World and OrdinaryTransformation: I don't get hungry; I was born
Self: forget France; France has disowned you.On askinny.Transformed: now 13 steps.Transformed: how
Journey: picking up their suitcases.Creatures of thedo I look; you look swell.Acceptance: Papillon calls the
Ordinary World: the people watching in theMentor.Death to the Old Self: you're dead.Trials and
streets.Pushed out of the Ordinary World: the policeTransformation 2:Outer Cave: taken to hospital.The
force the convicts on.Meeting the Loyal Ally: Louisgay boy doctor and the turnkey.Transforming: getting
Dega.Romantic Challenge: Dega's wife.Meeting thestringer; Dega sends soup.Developing Characters and
Hero: Papillion ["Papi"]No Way Back: no youRelationships: listen my friend, you owe me
won't.Meeting the Mentor: no you won't.World of thenothing.Developing Characters and Relationships: the
Mentor: in the ship.Hero's Capabilities / Danger /turnkey puts a flower in the boy's mouth.Pushed to the
Warning: Papillon has a knife.On a Journey / PushedMiddle Cave: Clusiot tells Papi that Dega has arranged
Forward: the boat sails.Hero's Capabilities: Papi shovesan escape.Middle Cave:Papi will kill the X-ray doctor if
money up his ass.Symbol of Transformation: thehe double-crosses him.Resisting the Inner Cave: you
butterfly tattoo.Hero's Backstory: you're papillon; youthink I'm a whore, well I'm not.Overcoming Resistance:
killed a pimp; I'm innocent.Mentor's Backstory: he spentPapillon agrees to him [the boy] coming
nine years there.Danger of the Journey andalong.Resistance: Papi wants Dega to come along, but
Transformation: 40% in the first year.Ally's Backstory:he won't.Romantic Challenge: what do you think your
Dega was the best counterfeiter.Call to Adventure /wife is doing with the lawyer and all that money.Inner
Hero and Ally Polarization: you need protection.Refusal:Cave: escaping from the turnkey and over the
Dega doesn't think much of Papi.This World: the hosewall.Forced to the Inner Cave: Dega saves Papi's
down.Foreshadow of the Transformation: I won't go tolife.Physical Change: Dega breaks his leg; setting his
solitary; nothing personal.Unbearable Antagonism: theleg.No Reward: The boat is a dud.Trials and
dead man is killed and robbed.Overcoming the Refusal:Transformation 3:Outer Cave: the tattoo man
ok, I need protection.Conscious Decision: Papi savesappears.Push to the Middle Cave: taken to the leper
Degas' life.Warning: Papi tied up like a dog.Firstcolony; hesitating at the door.Inner Cave: with the lead
Threshold from Afar: looking at the islands.Warning:leper; smoking his cigar.Reward: the boat and
you can't get away, the sharks, the current.Thresholdmoney.Meeting the Oracle: only a few weeks to
Guardians: the convicts turned guards.First ThresholdHonduras.Journey to the Sword: on the boat to
Marker: crossing the bridge.Physical Change: he cutsHonduras.Trial to the Sword: getting gangrene and
himself to go to hospital.Creatures of the Firstoperating.Seizing the Sword: arriving in
Threshold: the prostitutes; the integrated convicts; theHonduras.Separation: Dega left behind.Forced to the
people of the island.Outer Cave:Authority Figure: theNight Sea Journey: running with the other convict.Near
warden.Rules: the guillotine figure.Meeting Allies: the oldDeath Experience: poison darts from the
man wants 2000 to escape work.Death: theIndians.Baptism: falling in the water.Reward: waking up
beheading.Resisting the Middle Cave: hoping the bribewith the idyllic tribe.Sexual Union: getting a girl.New Self
will mean avoiding work.Pushed to the Middle Cave:Physical Change: the chief gets a tattoo.Forced to the
my family lost everything.Middle Cave:In Kilo 40.HavingAtonement with the Father: the tribe leaves and Papi
to catch the croc.Guards make money from theseeks refuge with the nuns.Apotheosis: leaving the five
croc.Inner Cave:Clusiot shares antimalaria.The deadyears of solitary confinement; the sharks take the
convict. Sharing his food.Polarization: Papi hisses at thedead.Convergence: Dega sees Papi on the
converted convicts.Push to the Belly of the Whale: Iisland.Magic Flight: taken to the island.Denial: Dega runs
can get a boat.World of the Belly of the Whale:from Papi.Magic Flight: Papi pursues Dega.Rescue from
catching butterflies.Allies Nature: Dego catches theWithout: the coconut drifts out to sea.Crossing the
butterfly with his hands.Warning: the butterfly manReturn Threshold: testing the bag of coconuts.Final
threatens to turn them in.Pushed to the TransformationAntagonism: the coconuts bash the rocks.Master of
and Trials: if I don't go I'll die.Pursued to thethe Two Worlds: it happens every seventh
Transformation and Trials: Papi saves Dega's life andwave.Goodbye: hugging.Freedom to Live: Papillon floats
runs.Polarization Decreases / Transformation: that manto freedom.Fade out: Papi outlives the colony.You are
risked his life to save mine; for me that's a newfree to reproduce this article as long as no changes
experience.Forced to the Road of Trials: Papi is doubleare made and the author's name and site URL are
crossed and captured.Trials and Transformation 1:Newretained.
World of the Transformation: Reclusion.Transformation