They just do it from their positions as buddies, and even servants, rather than teachers or elders.
Together, they more or less fulfill the same duties that a mentor does. She gets plenty of good advice from them, some of which she ignores like a good Campbellian hero does.
Her "mentors" are more like her friends: the enchanted doodads in the castle, who give her the 411 on what it's all about in the Beast's high-end pad. Meeting the Mentorīelle doesn't strictly have a mentor, not in the Gandalf/Dumbledore kind of way. So off she goes, jumping in with both feet and ready to sign up for a permanent playdate with the WolfLion of Doom up in that castle. The only other concern for her is her father, and in this case, refusing the call would mean refusing to help him. Show this girl a magical castle, and she can't get there fast enough. Refuse? Belle? Clearly you did not see the sheep she had to hang out with in the opening number (and not just the four-footed ones). They're the adventure she's setting out to as well as the home she's hoping to save. The price may just be the best thing that's ever happened to her…Īnother possible community is the one at the castle: the Beast and his enchanted underlings who are getting pretty darn tired of life as talking knickknacks. Her father, who stumbled into the Beast's lair and now finds himself prisoner, needs his little girl to come bail him out. And yet, there's still a community in need of help that launches her into her adventure: a community of one. At least, nothing that they didn't bring upon themselves by listening to Gaston's chowderhead propaganda. Belle doesn't belong to this community-she's just the weird girl they talk about behind her back. The traditional call to adventure means a threat to the community as a whole. This is the place where creative souls go to die. This is not the place for a bright, imaginative girl to discover new things. "Every morning just the same / since the morning that we came / to this poor provincial town," she informs us, and her brief guided tour of the local nitwits confirms it. Want more? We have an entire Online Course devoted to the hero's journey.) Ordinary Worldīelle's ordinary world is so bland she gets an entire song about it (and the first one out of the gate to boot). 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.
APPROACH TO THE INMOST CAVE MEANING MOVIE
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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