For the homework I picked the movie Silent Hill
Archetypes are as follows:
- Hero: Rose Da Silva, the protagonist
- Mentor: Galia, the creepy old lady who tells her how Silent Hill works
- Threshold Guardian: Her first encounter with the monsters of Silent Hill
- Herald: The siren noise that indicates the world shifting into it’s nightmare state
- Shapeshifter: The cop Sybil
- Shadow: Chris Da Silva, her husband
- Trickster: The Cult Leader who initially appears to be helpful to our protagonist
- Allies: Galia, Alessa: the child controlling Silent Hill, The Darkness: the dark god granting Alessa power, Sybil
The 8 stages are as follows:
- You: Start of the film, Rose saving her child Sharon who sleep walks talking about Silent Hill
- Need: To find out what is wrong with her daughter/rescue her once she’s lost in Silent Hill
- Go: Enter the hell hole town that is Silent Hill
- Search: Rose’s journey to find her daughter
- Find: Getting her daughter
- Take: Sybil’s sacrifice to be burned alive to save Sharon
- Return: Leaving Silent Hill
- Change: They arrive home but are seemingly still trapped in the fog filled parallel world
Timeline: Presumably Rose Da Silva is born and leads her life till the point where she marries her now husband Chris, she then 9 years prior to the start of the film adopts a child and names her Sharon. She raises Sharon till the events of the film. The timeline becomes significantly shorter now as the events of the film take place. She takes her daughter to Silent Hill, goes through the events of the film over the course of what appears to be two or three days, exits Silent Hill and it ends with the final shot of the film which is her and her daughter home but stuck in a parallel reality.