| From our deconstruction of hundreds of | | | | Transformation: Reclusion.Transformation |
| Hollywood blockbusters at Hero's Journey is | | | | Mentor: our job is to process you, to break |
| the template upon which the vast majority of | | | | you physically, mentally and |
| successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters | | | | spiritually.Rules: masturbate as little as |
| are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood | | | | possible etc.Outer Cave:Marker of |
| movies we have deconstructed are based on | | | | Transformation: counting 5 steps to |
| this template.Understanding this template is | | | | start.Resisting the Transformation: we eat |
| a priority for story or screenwriters.The | | | | everything we get; press ups.Marker / |
| Hero's Journey:a) Attempts to tap into | | | | Foreshadow of the Transformation: how do I |
| unconscious expectations the audience has | | | | look?Polarization Decreases / Transformation: |
| regarding what a story is and how it should | | | | Dega sends a coconut.Time Shift: the old man |
| be told.b) Gives the writer more structural | | | | next door is gone.Resisting the |
| elements than simply three or four acts, plot | | | | Transformation: I'm still here you |
| points, mid point and so on.c) Interpreted | | | | bastards.Physical Change: the bat bites the |
| metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, | | | | leg.Middle Cave:Forced to Transform: the |
| allows an infinite number of varied stories | | | | warden wants to know who sent the coconut; |
| to be created.and more...EXAMPLE: Papillon | | | | half rations and no light.Push to the New |
| (1973) - Hero's Journey [basic | | | | Self: I accuse you of a wasted life; the |
| deconstruction][can also be deconstructed | | | | penalty is death.MIDPOINT: Developing |
| with Dega as the Supernatural Aid]FADE IN: | | | | Characters and Relationships / Decreased |
| context: penal colony.Goodbye to the Ordinary | | | | Polarization: Dega worried that Papi will |
| World and Ordinary Self: forget France; | | | | tell; I would.Transforming: laughing in the |
| France has disowned you.On a Journey: picking | | | | rain.Inner Cave:Resisting the Transformation: |
| up their suitcases.Creatures of the Ordinary | | | | I don't get hungry; I was born |
| World: the people watching in the | | | | skinny.Transformed: now 13 steps.Transformed: |
| streets.Pushed out of the Ordinary World: the | | | | how do I look; you look swell.Acceptance: |
| police force the convicts on.Meeting the | | | | Papillon calls the Mentor.Death to the Old |
| Loyal Ally: Louis Dega.Romantic Challenge: | | | | Self: you're dead.Trials and Transformation |
| Dega's wife.Meeting the Hero: Papillion | | | | 2:Outer Cave: taken to hospital.The gay boy |
| ["Papi"]No Way Back: no you won't.Meeting the | | | | doctor and the turnkey.Transforming: getting |
| Mentor: no you won't.World of the Mentor: in | | | | stringer; Dega sends soup.Developing |
| the ship.Hero's Capabilities / Danger / | | | | Characters and Relationships: listen my |
| Warning: Papillon has a knife.On a Journey / | | | | friend, you owe me nothing.Developing |
| Pushed Forward: the boat sails.Hero's | | | | Characters and Relationships: the turnkey |
| Capabilities: Papi shoves money up his | | | | puts a flower in the boy's mouth.Pushed to |
| ass.Symbol of Transformation: the butterfly | | | | the Middle Cave: Clusiot tells Papi that Dega |
| tattoo.Hero's Backstory: you're papillon; you | | | | has arranged an escape.Middle Cave:Papi will |
| killed a pimp; I'm innocent.Mentor's | | | | kill the X-ray doctor if he double-crosses |
| Backstory: he spent nine years there.Danger | | | | him.Resisting the Inner Cave: you think I'm a |
| of the Journey and Transformation: 40% in the | | | | whore, well I'm not.Overcoming Resistance: |
| first year.Ally's Backstory: Dega was the | | | | Papillon agrees to him [the boy] coming |
| best counterfeiter.Call to Adventure / Hero | | | | along.Resistance: Papi wants Dega to come |
| and Ally Polarization: you need | | | | along, but he won't.Romantic Challenge: what |
| protection.Refusal: Dega doesn't think much | | | | do you think your wife is doing with the |
| of Papi.This World: the hose down.Foreshadow | | | | lawyer and all that money.Inner Cave: |
| of the Transformation: I won't go to | | | | escaping from the turnkey and over the |
| solitary; nothing personal.Unbearable | | | | wall.Forced to the Inner Cave: Dega saves |
| Antagonism: the dead man is killed and | | | | Papi's life.Physical Change: Dega breaks his |
| robbed.Overcoming the Refusal: ok, I need | | | | leg; setting his leg.No Reward: The boat is a |
| protection.Conscious Decision: Papi saves | | | | dud.Trials and Transformation 3:Outer Cave: |
| Degas' life.Warning: Papi tied up like a | | | | the tattoo man appears.Push to the Middle |
| dog.First Threshold from Afar: looking at the | | | | Cave: taken to the leper colony; hesitating |
| islands.Warning: you can't get away, the | | | | at the door.Inner Cave: with the lead leper; |
| sharks, the current.Threshold Guardians: the | | | | smoking his cigar.Reward: the boat and |
| convicts turned guards.First Threshold | | | | money.Meeting the Oracle: only a few weeks to |
| Marker: crossing the bridge.Physical Change: | | | | Honduras.Journey to the Sword: on the boat to |
| he cuts himself to go to hospital.Creatures | | | | Honduras.Trial to the Sword: getting gangrene |
| of the First Threshold: the prostitutes; the | | | | and operating.Seizing the Sword: arriving in |
| integrated convicts; the people of the | | | | Honduras.Separation: Dega left behind.Forced |
| island.Outer Cave:Authority Figure: the | | | | to the Night Sea Journey: running with the |
| warden.Rules: the guillotine figure.Meeting | | | | other convict.Near Death Experience: poison |
| Allies: the old man wants 2000 to escape | | | | darts from the Indians.Baptism: falling in |
| work.Death: the beheading.Resisting the | | | | the water.Reward: waking up with the idyllic |
| Middle Cave: hoping the bribe will mean | | | | tribe.Sexual Union: getting a girl.New Self / |
| avoiding work.Pushed to the Middle Cave: my | | | | Physical Change: the chief gets a |
| family lost everything.Middle Cave:In Kilo | | | | tattoo.Forced to the Atonement with the |
| 40.Having to catch the croc.Guards make money | | | | Father: the tribe leaves and Papi seeks |
| from the croc.Inner Cave:Clusiot shares | | | | refuge with the nuns.Apotheosis: leaving the |
| antimalaria.The dead convict. Sharing his | | | | five years of solitary confinement; the |
| food.Polarization: Papi hisses at the | | | | sharks take the dead.Convergence: Dega sees |
| converted convicts.Push to the Belly of the | | | | Papi on the island.Magic Flight: taken to the |
| Whale: I can get a boat.World of the Belly of | | | | island.Denial: Dega runs from Papi.Magic |
| the Whale: catching butterflies.Allies | | | | Flight: Papi pursues Dega.Rescue from |
| Nature: Dego catches the butterfly with his | | | | Without: the coconut drifts out to |
| hands.Warning: the butterfly man threatens to | | | | sea.Crossing the Return Threshold: testing |
| turn them in.Pushed to the Transformation and | | | | the bag of coconuts.Final Antagonism: the |
| Trials: if I don't go I'll die.Pursued to the | | | | coconuts bash the rocks.Master of the Two |
| Transformation and Trials: Papi saves Dega's | | | | Worlds: it happens every seventh |
| life and runs.Polarization Decreases / | | | | wave.Goodbye: hugging.Freedom to Live: |
| Transformation: that man risked his life to | | | | Papillon floats to freedom.Fade out: Papi |
| save mine; for me that's a new | | | | outlives the colony.You are free to reproduce |
| experience.Forced to the Road of Trials: Papi | | | | this article as long as no changes are made |
| is double crossed and captured.Trials and | | | | and the author's name and site URL are |
| Transformation 1:New World of the | | | | retained. |