The Hero's Adventure: Movie Analysis

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As a little child, my nephew always watched a power ranger’s video every day. He also wants to become a superhero like in the movie because he thought the superhero was cool and had some kinds of power than normal people. In the movie, there were showing good people were protect others and bad people tried to control the world, which make the children learn that not everyone were good people. Hero possesses to protect their loved one from dangerous without fear of losing their life. In the film “The Hero’s Adventure,” with Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers interviewed Joseph Campbell about exploring different kinds of Hero concepts. On the concept of become a Hero is someone who had done something great to others rather than themselves. He …show more content…
He talked a guy name was Gru, who was a villain that tried to steal the moon so the world will remember his name. His plan was to adopt three little girls that sale the cooking from Miss Hattie to steal the machine from Vector. This machine will turn large object to small objects as in the film the people were tested by turning a bigger elephant into smaller than a banana. In order to go to the moon, he needs the bank to support him with money to build the machine to go the moon. Everything went successfully, Gru went to moon used the machine to turn the moon into smaller sizes and came back to the earth. By Dr. Nefario discover that the machine was not successfully that thing that has been used to test were turned back to be normal size and the bigger were fast going to turn back. Gru changed his plan to return the moon in order to save the earth. In the film, Gru learned the transformation of consciousness is the girls not the moon. The lives of having children around the house give him the sense of family. Because when he was young always want attention from his mother and her to impress of what he build, but she never get the feeling that he want. Gru want his mother to proud of her son but Gru never receive at all. The girls turn bad person into good dad with love. At first, he tried to show others that supervillain is the one who make a plan that other never think …show more content…
He was the son of Stoick the Vast. Hiccup was weird in other people’s eye, so another teenager would not hang out with him. One day, he accidently found a dragon with a missing left wing. He almost killed that dragon, but he changed his mind to help the dragon then they became friends, the dragon was name Toothless. His dad forces him to join in the lesson of killing dragons. After everyone found out about Toothless and the Queen dragon, they take off the ship and they went on to kill the Queen dragon without knowing if they are going to survive. Hiccup made his decision to help Toothless and helped his dad to kill the Queen dragon. With all the help from every dragon, he finally killed the Queen dragon, but he also lost his left leg. Everything changed, there were no more killing the dragon in these islands. Everyone became friends with a

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