Since a Eastern Film was able to fit the mono myth pretty closely, I was surprised at how difficult it seemed for the Batman: The Dark Knight group to apply what could possibly be one of the greatest movies of all time to the mono myth. After looking more deeply into their descriptions it almost seems as if they confused themselves by covering the entire Christian Bale Batman trilogy which caused a lot of the elements within the mono myth to be scattered throughout three movies. This scattering of the mono myth is not like George Lucas' mono myth spread out between IV-VI and I-VI, but instead is just ordering things in an illogical manner. And though it may have been difficult to apply Batman: The Dark Knight to the mono myth, it seems as if Campbell's theory applies to almost all Action/Adventure movies foreign and domestic. Is there any adventure movie that does not have at least part of the mono myth in it?
I believe that you need to have most or all of the monomyth structure within a story to actually apply it and claim that it is atleast partially relevant. Almost all stories have the beginning "call to adventure", but many also have no return and feature the protagonist dying such as in V for Vendetta. I do have to agree that most action and adventure movies take a lot from this monomyth, but that most of the other genres have no such relationship with this.
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