Summary Of Robert Stromberg's Creating The Myth

Second Version In the 1959 Walt Disney produced one of the famous musical and fantasy movie named Sleeping Beauty. Throughout the years Walt Disney produced many more well know movies. In 2014 a famous director named Robert Stromberg produced a second version of Sleeping Beauty and was named Maleficent. The two movies are very different from each other, but still contain the same theme though out the movies. In “Creating the Myth” by Linda Seger discuss the ten stages of a hero myth movie. According to Seger, “They show who the hero is, what the hero needs, and how the story and character interact…transformation.” However, in the movie Maleficent the protagonist doesn’t meet each stage of the hero myth. The introduction of the hero in Maleficent is a little unusual According to Seger, “The hero is introduced in a ordinary surroundings, in a mundane world, doing mundane things.” However, in the movie Maleficent wasn’t introduced in ordinary setting nor was she doing normal things. The movie start with speaking of the two worlds. The world where there was only one ruler in the kingdom. In the second world there was only magical creatures and fairies. …show more content…
Maleficent had to find a certain kind of helper because she didn’t have the wings to fly and see everything. Her helper was Diaval a black crow. She told him that he was going to be her wings. In “The Hero Myth,” Seger states, “The hero usually receives help, and the help often comes from unusual sources.” He would go see what the king Stefan would be doing in his castle. Diaval would come back and inform Maleficent of everything that was going on in the human kingdom. When he came back to Maleficent he turned into a human to communicate to her of what he had seen. Maleficent had the magic and power to turn Diaval into anything she needed him to be. She had turned him into a wolf, horse, and dragon. He was like her right hand man for anything she