![]() ![]() In The Lion King: Simba is born in the Pride Lands, which is a comfortable atmosphere for him to get nurtured. It’s the safe place, the everyday life where we learn crucial details about our hero. ![]() In myth: The hero is oblivious to the adventures to come. Diagrammatic Representation of the twelve stages in ‘The Hero’s Journey’ The Lion King (1994), screenplay by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts & Linda Woolverton, directed by Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff. So, let us look at how Simba’s journey to the throne is guided by Campbell’s twelve stages. All of these stories, if not strongly, adhere to Campbell’s template. The writers of this film have acknowledged Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1609) and the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses as being the inspiration for the film’s story. The reason for this is the careful or rather a very conscious application of this template to Simba’s journey. 1904-1987.īut then, why only The Lion King (1994)? One could’ve picked any modern story, Black Panther (2018) for example, to explain this template. Joseph Campbell, mythologist, writer & lecturer. ![]() And this is what makes it an important study. movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Bahubali movies), we would come to a conclusion that writers still use this template, consciously or unconsciously, in order to structure their narratives. If this template is matched with the story structures of modern single protagonist stories (e.g. These twelve stages first influenced the auteurs Stanley Kubrick and George Lucas in their projects 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Star Wars (1977) respectively. He divided the now very popular ‘The Hero’s Journey’ into twelve stages which follows the protagonist from beginning to end in the story’s time frame. the structure of all these narratives had a single recurring pattern if studied from the point of view of the protagonist. Campbell found that all the mythologies with a single, well-defined protagonist (or the ‘hero’) had the same skeleton i.e. He compiled all of his studies in his 1949 book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, found a recurring pattern in the mythologies of the world. ![]()
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