Monomyth Spreadsheet

By comparing other films that were analyzed on the monomyth spreadsheet to The Last Samurai, I noticed parts that I agree with and others that I would argue against. Our approach to the monomyth was different from other groups was that it was much more detailed. In our responses we gave the name of the event, and a brief description of it, while other groups sometimes just gave a couple words.

One movie I would've approached differently is Batman: The Dark Knight. The group includes parts of the other batman movies in their report and I think it makes their spreadsheet out of order. I don't think they can say the Call to Adventure is "Batman hears about the Joker from Gordon" when the First Threshold is "Becomes Batman (first movie)." I probably wouldn't have included more than the one movie because it seems like the format is designed for one movie, but even if I did I would've put them in chronological order instead of mixing them up.

Another observation I disagreed with was for The Interview. The group claims that the call to adventure is  "CIA Offering", but I wouldn't have approached this the same way. I think that the call to adventure for this film is when Aaron becomes embarrassed of the content of his show because of the remarks a man he graduated college with makes. The man says the content of the show is a joke and that Aaron's work isn't important or significant. This conversation fires Aaron up, and makes him want to start having real interviews on his show instead of just celebrities. Besides those two, I think the ideas for the rest of the movies were spot-on.

After looking at how other groups interpreted their movies, I wouldn't change any of my thoughts on The Last Samurai. I think my group's points were strong.