For those of you, who would like a quickoverview of the stages and steps that Bruce Wayne takes on the hero’s journey, view the first 2 sites. Visit this e xample as much as you like as you think about and write your narrative. At the bottom of t he last page is the site for the clips from the movie. http://prezi.com/yssrvoxzp0ys/the-heroes-journey-batman-begins/ Summary of entire journey http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/batman-begins-heroic-cycle-4947604 Project of all the stages. Batman Begins–The Hero’s journey stagesBatman Begins Ordinary worldBruce Wayne is the son of ex traordinary wealthy parents and lives a sheltered life. Call to AdventureBruce‟s parents are murdered in front of him by a robber. Refusal of the callBruce isn‟t yet ready to take on the role of the Dark Knight, a man who can strike fear into criminals. Foolishly he takes a gun to kill the man who killed his parents b ut someone beats him to it. He n eeds to go on the journe y first, to be worthy and to do that he must first learn what it is to be a criminal. Supernatural AidWhilst in Bhutanese prison he meets Ra‟s al Ghul and learns the ways of the League of Shadows. Crossing the First ThresholdBruce‟s training begins, Teaching him how to fight but also giving him a code to live by.
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For those of you, who would like a quick overview of the stages and steps that Bruce Wayne
takes on the hero’s journey, view the first 2 sites. Visit this example as much as you like as you
think about and write your narrative. At the bottom of the last page is the site for the clips
from the movie.
http://prezi.com/yssrvoxzp0ys/the-heroes-journey-batman-begins/ Summary of entire journey
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/batman-begins-heroic-cycle-4947604 Project of all the stages.
Batman Begins – The Hero’s journey stages
Batman Begins
Ordinary world
Bruce Wayne is the son of extraordinary wealthy parents and lives a sheltered life.
Call to Adventure
Bruce‟s parents are murdered in front of him by a robber.
Refusal of the call
Bruce isn‟t yet ready to take on the role of the Dark Knight, a man who can strike fear into criminals. Foolishlyhe takes a gun to kill the man who killed his parents but someone beats him to it. He needs to go on the journeyfirst, to be worthy and to do that he must first learn what it is to be a criminal.
Supernatural Aid
Whilst in Bhutanese prison he meets Ra‟s al Ghul and learns the ways of the League of Shadows.
Crossing the First Threshold
Bruce‟s training begins, Teaching him how to fight but also giving him a code to live by.
The are two roads of the trials in Batman begins. The first is his training under Ra‟s al Ghul where he learns his
combat skills.
Meeting with the Goddess
Rachel Dawes is the assistant District Attorney and inspires Bruce to be good “It‟s not who you are underneath.
It‟s what you do that defines you.”
Woman as Temptress
Ra‟s al Ghul asks him to execute a prisoner as part of his training. Bruce refuses and destroys the League ofShadows head quarters.
Second Supernatural aid
Lucius Fox supplies him with all his high tech military devices
Belly of the whale
Bruce enters the well which was the source of his fear as a child and discovers a bat cave. He decides to own the
bat as his symbol to inspire fear into Gotham‟s criminals
The second Road of the trials
Bruce develops his high tech equipment and becomes the Batman. He jumps off a roof and realizes he needs to
have the ability to fly and develops a cape that can let him glide. He‟s also learning how the city and police
operate which enables him to become Batman.
Atonement with the Father
Lucius learns that Bruce is Batman when he is poisoned by The Scarecrow and Alfred has to contact Lucius to
create a cure for the toxin. Now Bruce and his mentor are both on the page are are „at one with‟ each other.
Apotheosis
Batman learns the plan to disperse the fear gas through a microwave dispersal in poison the entire city.
Ultimate Boon
He rescues Rachel in his Batcar while the police are in hot pursuit. He is no longer a struggling novice like hewas earlier in the story. He is now a fully developed hero ready to take on Ra‟s al Ghul.
The Death of the mentor
When Bruce discovers that Henri Ducard is really Ra‟s al Ghul and then Ghul burns his house down.