Edward Scissorhands

        The 1990 Tim Burton movie, Edward Scissorhands has many archetypes. It is about a small suburban town that has a large gothic mansion at the end of a cookie-cutter cul-de-sac. An inventor lived there that made machines. He created Edward, which was essentially a human except he had scissors for hands. Before the old man could give him real hands, he died. Peg, an Avon business woman finds Edward alone in the house and she brings him to live in her family's house. The women in the community become enthralled with the new, very different visitor who has scissors for hands.  He becomes a loved creation that everyone wants for there needs. He shows off his skills with his scissor hands.  He creates amazing topiary gardens , cuts dogs, and ladies’ hair and creates amazing ice sculptures, this brings everyone to respect him. Soon Edward finds himself falling for Peg’s teenage daughter, Kim. She has a boyfriend that despised Edward because of his feelings and how Kim is starting to show feelings for Edward as well. So Kim's boyfriend creates a plan to have him hated in the town. He tells him to break into his house and so Edward does it because he thought Kim would like it.  When he is caught he doesn't have as much respect from the citizens anymore but he continues to live with peg's family and gain it back.Edward struggles to belong and eventual exile due to his differences.  By the end of the movie, Kim has come to love Edward.  When the jealous boyfriend is fed up with Edward he gets the whole town after him, and him and Edward end up in the old mansion fighting. Edward ends up killing him. Kim protects him by telling the town that he died fighting with her jealous boyfriend in the mansion. She leaves him there so he can live in peace even though she wants to be with him.

        We see many archetypes take place in this film. We see Edward take a journey where he searches for identity and love. He finds both, he becomes an artist that was loved but it falls apart when he finds love with Kim and the town turns on him because they realize his differences. Edward is many different hero's, he is a transcendent hero, a hero as a lover, and an unbalanced hero. Also there are many charateristics of the hero's journey in this film. The hero, Edward, is naive and inexperienced, we see this in that he has not experienced society and has to learn many basic things that happen in everyday life that exist outside his own world. As well as this we see the hero yearns for the the beautiful lady, Kim, who is sometimes his guide or insperation. Edward loves Kim and wants to be with her and he is willing to do anything to achivev this. Another characteristic that we see is the hero must go on a journey, learn a lesson, change in some way, and return home. This is shown when he goes into the town, tries to fit in with society, realizes he can't change who he is and that it is better to be yourself and he goes back to his home.
          A situation archetype that is portrayed in the movie is the classic battle between good and evil. Edward being the good character and the jeleous boyfriend being the evil character. We see them fight over Kim and throughtout the movie the evil character tries to take out Edward by putting him in unfair situations that get him in trouble and un-liked throughtout the community, In the end they battle it out and Edward wins the heart of the girl and ends up killing the boyfriend. Some symbolic archetypes that we see in the movie include some of the colors we see. Black which represents mystery, the unknown, Edward is dressed in black and this shows how he is different from the others in the neighborhood. Green, which we see in his garden and his creations, this represents hope, growth, sympathy, and adaptability. We see Edward going through a growth period and hope that he will get real hands and be accepted in society. He is accepted into society because of sympathy. He does adapt to his new surroundings as best as he can. We see the object a heart in the beggining of the movie that the inventor wants to put into his machines to give them feelings and emotions, he wants to love someone so he creates his own son. Edward does have emotions and love throughout the movie for Kim.
          This film tell a great fantasy story about romance and finding an identity, it follows many arcetypes and this is what makes it a great story.
      

Pirates of the Caribbean

          In the Pirates of the Caribbean we see many elements of the hero's journey. There are many characters in this film but the one that takes the real hero's journey is Will. A pirates son who was rescued by Elizabeth Swan's father Governer Swan and his crew when there was a ship wreck. Elizabeth then finds a pirate medallion around Will's neck. This is a pivitol moment that starts out the hero's journey. Several years later Will finds himself falling for Elizabeth and when the crew of the Black Pearl pirate ship come looking for the pirate medallion Elizabeth stole Will must step in to save her. The pirates kidnap Elizabeth and take her on their ship. Will chooses Captain Black Sparrow as his partner, although he doesn't seem trustworthy, he knows where Elizabeth is being the former captain of the Black Pearl. Since the General and the Governer do not want to include Will in the rescue of her he breaks Jack out of jail and they condem a ship and begin their adventure.
          This is stage one of the hero's journey, "the departure". We see stage two "the initiation" when Will and Jack begin Sailing in open water. They realize they need a bigger crew so they go to an island filled with pirates to get one. When they begin sailing to rescue Elizabeth and obtain the Black Pearl for Jack they begin stage three, "the road of trials". This stage includes sailing through storms, battling other pirates, being taken over by the cursed crew of the black pearl and then Elizabeth and Jack get marooned on a island. Then we see the fourth stage of the hero's journey, "the innermost cave", where we find Will actually in a cave, with the Black Pearl pirates using him to break the curse.
          Meanwhile Elizabeth and Jack are rescued by the British army and Governer and they form a plan to save Will. After fighting and the British winning, Will decideds to break free of the complicated love triangle between him, Elizabeth and the General. She decideds to go with the General. Jack gets captured by the British Navy and is sentenced to hanging, until Will comes to rescue him. When they break free and Jack returns to his ship and becomes the captain of the Black Pearl once again.
         Will professes his love to Elizabeth, this is the final stage of the hero's journey "the return and reintegration with society," stage. We see him and Elizabeth finally come together and her father accepts which in turn makes the rest of soceity accept them and Will back into soceity as a pirate, but is not incarcerated by the law.
          The Pirates of the Caribbean is a really exciting, action-filled movie with romance incorperated. The elements of the hero's journey makes it a great story.