Film essay

Film Response Essay Guidelines, Olivier, HUMA 1301

Due Date: Nov. 9

Word count: a minimum of 500 words

Format: MLA

Instructions: Choose any film that follows either the hero’s or heroine’s journey story pattern to some degree (some films use a combination of both). In your essay, explain how the film’s hero or heroine navigates at least three of the specific stages in this journey. Feel free to use first person and include a personal reaction to the film as well as you see relevant.

Suggested Hero’s Journey Films:

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

· Big Fish

· The Way, Way Back

· The Matrix

· Alice in Wonderland

· The Life of Pi

· Almost any Marvel superhero movie!

Suggested Heroine’s Journey Films:

· Beasts of the Southern Wild

· The Hunger Games (Katniss goes on both a hero’s and a heroine’s journey)

· Pan’s Labyrinth

· Gravity

· Maleficent

· Beauty and the Beast

· Wonder Woman