Shows how Joseph Campbell's model for a hero's journey has been adapted to the movie 'the matrix'.
- Date: August 21, 2003
- Level: High School, 12th grade
- Grade: A+
- Length: 7 pages (1804 words)
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hero quest, morpheus, computer programmer, matrix, audience, elements, ...technology computers, composers, premise, mentor, undoubtedly, reliance, decades, existence, widely
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"The Matrix" is a film which follows the structure of a traditional quest story. However, the composers have appropriated elements of this structure to suit a contemporary audience by considering the views and values of our present culture. In making these adjustments to elements of the traditional hero/quest story, the film is more appealing and thus more accessible to a wide and varied audience. The context of the movie is a world in which technology, computers in particular, have become highly influential and is based on the premise that power is the centre of our existence. Thus, it can be said that the voice of this film is a dominant one as the theory of reliance on technology is one ...
... comic-book appreciation and adjusted their love for Japanese animation so that it could be portrayed in a way which was accessible to all those that viewed the film: fight scenes with guns, acrobatics and special effects.
Ultimately, Neo reached within his body and mind to find the strengths and skills he was reluctant to believe he possessed and walks away the victor of fights with his enemies. The quest was to find the truth and to liberate humanity from the bondage of The Matrix and on completion, Neo returns to his world to begin recruiting people from The Matrix as he himself was once recruited. Neo is now the 'master of two worlds' and declares his
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