2. The Lion King
Modeled on Hamlet.
How would knowing one story help with understanding the other?
Christopher Vogler served as a story consultant on this film.
Where is the Star Wars scene?

3. Questions to Ask
What patterns do you see? What other stories does it mimic?
What archetypal roles does each character fulfill?
Show this at the beginning as the sun rises.

4. Questions to Ask
What is the crisis that upsets the Ordinary World, the balanced world?
What is the central idea that, like a sword, empowers Simba?
The crises is the death of Mufassa. Simba’s eureka comes when he realizes that he is his father’s son. s sog of movie.Change the slide at Opening song of movie.

5. The Lion King A New Hope
What other famous episode does this remind you of?
The answer is in the title of this slide!

6. Opening Song How might the Heroes Journey parallel the Circle of Life?
Show when the song first says the “Circle of Life?”

7. Ordinary World Who is Mufassa? Is he a good king, father?
Simba—what archetype is he?
Rafiki—what archetype is he?
Zazu—what archetype is he?
This slide should be shown after Zazu says, “Make him a throw rug.”

8. Call to Adventure
Could Scar’s talk with Simba be a Call to Adventure? If so, how does this change our understanding of the story?
Is the archetypal wheel inverted now?
Who becomes a Threshold Guardian?
Show when Simba and Scar talk the first time. Simba receives a call to adventure, but the nature of the adventure will lead him to destruction, to the destruction of the ordinary world. It is only from the ashes of failure that Simba can arise the hero he is destined to become. Surabi.

9. Threshold Guardian What role does Zazu play?
What often follows when we fail to heed advice?
What archetypal mask does Simba wear to evade Zazu’s supervision?
Zazu is the Mentor. He wears the mask of a Threshhold Guardian. Simba must become a trickster to evade him.

10. Simba as Trickster
What kind of king do you think this Simba might become?
Is he tending towards the higher self or the shadow?
What trait(s) push him in this direction?
Humility and reason OR
pride and naiveté
Show this during the “Mighty King” song.

11. Crossing the First Threshold
Entering the elephant Graveyard
What happens when we play close to the line?
Do we have two forces action as threshold guardians?

12. Simba finds he is but a cub, not yet his father
Approach to the Inmost Cave
Simba finds he is but a cub, not yet his father

13. Ordeal To succeed, Simba must recognize his enemy.
Does he make this step or fail?
What is the price of narrow vision? Of naiveté?

14. Ordeal The Mentor and Shadow
What makes Scar a villain? His ambition, his desire for personal glory, or his lack of concern for the greater community?
How about all of these?
Show in the elephant graveyard as Scar begins his song.

15. Ordeal Definition of a Shadow
Does Scar have any interest in the hyenas? Are they seen as individuals or as objects to manipulate?
Why is it that minions are always stupid? Bonzai, Shenzi, and Ed.
Show after Scar’s “Be Prepared.”

16. Shining in justice
Shining injustice

17. Reward What is Simba’s Reward for failing to identify his enemy?

18. Reward
Is Simba at fault for Muffasa’s death and the loss of the cosmic balance?
What does Scar’s suggestion become for Simba? What if Simba had ignored him?
Show when Scar tells Simba that it was Simba’s fault Mustaffa is dead. As an innocent, Simba is not at fault but has been manipulated. Scar’s suggestion becomes the shadow figure within Simba’s mind and is the Threshold Guardian that bars the door on Simba’s self-actualization.

19. Separation not Return
Simba’s departure signals his new role as a lost soul, a failed hero. But hope springs eternal.
Show when the hyenas are picking out thorns. Transition for second comment.

20. Flight
Simba’s flight signals the end of the mini-journey of Simba the heir.
But a new journey begins. But what kind is it?
Simba becomes a Lost Soul.

21. Lost Soul Episode 2: A New Journey
“Please don’t throw me in that briar patch.”
Does the briar patch serve as a protective barrier?
The briar patch becomes an unexpected ally.

22. Lost Soul
What is the importance of geography in providing a threshold for this new journey?
How might geography symbolize Simba’s plight?
The briar patch and the desert provide a protective barrier by the very nature of its harshness.
Not even the hyenas will venture forth. They are threshold guardians barring Scar’s minions.

23. Lost Soul buzzard-bait
When our spirit reaches its lowest point, the time is right to resurrect a hero.
But it will take time.
It is not until Simba rises from his own ashes in the desert and is allowed to mature that he is ready for the task for which he was born.

24. Special World Slimy yet satisfying
What is the function of this Special World in which Simba lives?
Is it merely a diversion?
Hakuna Matata?
The purpose of Timon and Pumba’s Paradise is to provide a time and place for Simba to mature. When the Herald comes, he will be ready.

25. Return of the King Episode 3
“She’s gonna eat me!”
Using the hero’s journey, why are Timon and Pumba upset?
Meeting of the Goddess?
Nala as Stormcrow and H?

26. Return of the King Refusal of the Call
What is it that prevents Simba from answering the Call to Adventure?

27. Meeting the Mentor Identity: Who are you?
“Old [Yoda] Rafiki, he show you the way!”
Look harder.” “Remember who you are?”
“Doesn’t matter; It’s in the past.”

28. Crossing the First Threshold
Crossing the same desert!
What is it that Simba remembers?
Can ideas be transformational?
Does how we think affect who we are?

29. Allies Who are Simba’s allies?
Timon and Pumba—what ever happened to Hakuna Matata?
Timon and Pumba—what mask do they wear? What kind of hero have they become?
Timon, Pumba, Nala, Rafiki, the lionsses. They now are connected to something outside themselves—the fate of a friend. They become tricksters and sacrificial heroes.

30. Tests What is the ultimate test that Simba must face?
These tests are always about identity: “Remember who you are.”
Scar truly demonstrates the power of words over brawn.
Simba’s fate relies on self-knowledge.

31. Symbolism What is the role of fire in this story?

32. Tests What revelation transforms Simba’s knowledge?
Why can’t a villain keep a secret?
Why didn’t Simba kill Scar?
Why was Scar unwilling to accept exile?

33. Tests
How frequently do villains perish by their own devices?

34. Symbolism What is the significance of all this rain?

35. Return of the King The Elixir
Has Simba achieved his Higher Self?
How quickly does nature restore the earth once balance is achieved?

36. Return of the King What is the significance of this new cub?
How is the Circle of Life and the Hero’s Journey related?

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