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Join us for part six of the Hero's Journey: The Departure. It's all about twelve mysterious space ships that appear around the world, and...hang on a second...that's Arrival , our bad.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in The hero's journey The departure
- 00:08
I'll ashman What stage is occurred during the hero's departure
- 00:16
there's kind of these three general stages that campbell articulates
- 00:19
but there's actually seventeen that he breaks down into So
- 00:23
so the first one that tends to occur or campbell
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- 00:25
argues occurs is the refusal of the call and the
- 00:29
hero is resistant I think of the story of jonah
- 00:33
in the old testament where gods like jonah i have
- 00:37
some work for you to do You have to go
- 00:38
to sodom and moron tell them that i'm going to
- 00:41
like burn them to the ground and jonah says i
- 00:44
really don't want to do that I'm going to run
- 00:47
away Yeah another kind of phase in this early step
- 00:55
is ah supernatural helper that comes and sort of helps
- 00:59
the hero on their journey So we talked a minute
- 01:04
ago about hagrid he's a kind of archetypal magical helper
- 01:10
One of the criticisms that i've heard of the magical
- 01:12
helper is that sometimes the magical helper is a person
- 01:15
of color you know there's a person of color in
- 01:17
the story but the story is never about them They're
- 01:21
just helping the hero reach their own goal So for
- 01:25
example sometimes in more contemporary films or movies there will
- 01:29
be like a person of color that's maybe the best
- 01:32
friend of the hero and it's Never really about that
- 01:35
character of color It's always just about the white hero
- 01:38
and the person of color has some kind of like
- 01:41
falk knowledge that they bring to bear on the story
- 01:44
and it's not really about that monstrous about helping the
- 01:46
hero Another early stage is the crossing of the threshold
- 01:51
and this is where the hero sort of accepts it
- 01:54
and sort of takes that first venturing out I'm thinking
- 01:59
of harry potter again he literally has to have the
- 02:02
faith to run into a wall The last stage of
- 02:06
the departure stages actually called belly of the whale So
- 02:08
it's named after george on dh this is where the
- 02:12
hero sort of confront some of his journeying and finds
- 02:16
himself in a totally different situation from the one he
- 02:19
knew before right So jonah you know he resists god's
- 02:23
command He goes on a boat the boat hits horrible
- 02:27
weather and they throw him off can't get swallowed by
- 02:31
a whale And so it's kind of a symbolic reckoning
- 02:34
with the hero resisting the choices that he's sort of
- 02:38
supposed to make What stage is occurred during the hero's 00:02:43.564 --> [endTime] departure
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