Wednesday, February 11, 2015
American Sniper, a nonfiction match to the monomyth?
Our group had an unique situation, applying the monomyth to a nonfiction story. Trying to fit the story into the spreadsheet, there were gaps which could not be filled as easily as a fiction story could. In Chris Kyle's story, there were parts of the spreadsheet that did not match up with the film. It either happened out of sequence or it just didn't happen. I feel like our group preformed an accurate analysis of the movie. We were able to give specific details to help fill the gaps left in the spreadsheet. I feel like the addition of a movie based on real events was a good addition to the list as a whole. A diverse group of movies are shown on the spreadsheet.
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Nonfiction is an interesting perspective of the monomyth. I have seen the film American Sniper, and he is known to be the 'Legend' or hero, which leads the film already to the genre of heroism. The hard part of nonfiction, is that you can't tweak the facts to fit the mono myth's guidelines, which in turn makes the film very different to normal heroism stories we usually hear. Like you said, with scenes out of 'order' and some not even filled out. But this just goes to demonstrate that not all hero stories are the same, and nonfiction films of heroism demonstrate the saying "Fact is stranger than fiction." American Sniper was a really good movie to portray a nonfiction hero in today's world, and how his story is told through the same ideas of the monomyth.
ReplyDeleteI think when a movie is based off a true story the directors attempt to make the movie seem as heroic as possible but they attempt to keep it as real as they can because it is nonfiction. Because of that there definitely would be gaps in your mono myth chart. And every hero has its own journey, it is already hard enough to make some fiction heroic films match the chart but with the storyline that American Sniper has and after seeing it I can say it definitely has parallels with the mono myth.
ReplyDeleteI believe that even if this story is non-fiction, or society has seemed to think that a hero in movies follows the same path as one in real life. In the first semester, we read Unbroken, which I now I know follows the ideal heroic journey. Even though their are gaps in the journey, I still believe that someone could still be considered a hero.
ReplyDeleteI believe that even if this story is non-fiction, or society has seemed to think that a hero in movies follows the same path as one in real life. In the first semester, we read Unbroken, which I now I know follows the ideal heroic journey. Even though their are gaps in the journey, I still believe that someone could still be considered a hero.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the story was made to match the Mono-myth? Did the writer find parts that he wanted to be in the movie to fit the Mono-myth film?
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