Blog 7:Hero's Quest and Film

Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within is a Japanese-American computer animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi. The film was released on July 11,2001 by Columbia Pictures.The movie is based on year 2065 and the Earth is under seige as the meteor has crashed onto the planet, unleashing millions of alien creatures known as Phantoms which roam on the planet.These creatures are threatening and are extinguishing the life on earth and has driven surviving humanity into barrier citiesthat are built to protect the inhabitants of Earth. But the few cities around the globe are in decline and time is running out.The story follows Doctor Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free Earth from the deadly race Phantoms. They must compete against General Hein, who wishes to attack the aliens with the Zeus space cannon to end the conflict.
The movie has alot of elements of monomyth.Monomyth which is also referred to as The Hero's journey is classified into three sections which are Departure, Initiation and Return. Departure deals with the separation of the hero before the adventure, Initiation deals with the adventures in the journey and Return deals with the knowledge and freedom acquired from the journey.
The different stages of departureof Hero's journey that can be seen in the movie are call from the unknown world which is saving the Earth from phantoms, supernatural aid which is Dr.Sid in the movie,the threshold was to find the three remaining elements.The different stages of Initiation were road of trails in which Dr. Aki had to pass the tests to have the spirits,another was atonement with the father which again is the voice of Dr. Sid who leads her in the correct way. The different stages of return that are seen in the movie are magic flight wich is the shielded vehicle,the crossing of return of the threshold, master of two worlds by having a close encounter with the phantom and then coming back to Earth by saving the Earth.
Works Cited
Final Fantasy:The Spirit Within.Wikipedia.Web.30April2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_Spirits_Within
Monomyth.Wikipedia.Web.25April2010.