When I was reading over what had been put into the chart for the Lego Movie I had some different opinions on each of the steps based on the way that I chose each step for Guardians of the Galaxy. The brown are the groups beliefs and the blue are mine. For the most part I agreed, although I thought somethings were out of order. A few major things I had strong issues about were the supernatural force, which I believed was being able to go be on the directions and achieving the status of master builder. Another was the apostasies because that is "When someone dies a physical death or dies to the self to live in spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss" and that definition does not go along with what the group had and I feel like Vitruvius' death was a better apostasies. Finally, there is a possibility for many options in each of these sections, but some of the ones that were left blank were not necessarily obvious, but were helpful to the story.
I think that part of the monomyth that is taking too much significance is the chronology. I don't think that this should carry so much weight. When making movies, I don't think that producers and directors are worried about the chronology of the monomyth. Of course, there are aspects of the monomyth that fit into modern movies, but I don't think that it always follows the aspects from a step-to-step basis.
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