#and the Ordeal always ends with the Reward which is when he reconnected with the scarab (I forgot how to spell their name sorry) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kitkat-the-muffin · 1 year ago

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So in the Hero’s Journey there are two moments of Death and Rebirth: the Ordeal and the Resurrection

And I was freakin DELIGHTED to see that Blue Beetle (2023) included LITERAL death and rebirth during the Ordeal and METAPHORICAL death and rebirth during the Resurrection

Explanation in the tags to avoid spoilers but this movie was freakin great, very Hero’s Journey indeed

#blue beetle #blue beetle 2023 #blue beetle (2023)#jaime reyes #so the Ordeal was when Jaime was literally dying as the bad guys drained his beetle essence or whatever #and his moment of rebirth was when he spoke to his father’s spirit on the edge of life and death and realized what he must do to be the hero #and the Ordeal always ends with the Reward which is when he reconnected with the scarab (I forgot how to spell their name sorry)#anyway the resurrection is when he’s ready to kill that red guy who’s name I forgot and the scarab is like ‘hold up we don’t kill’#his moment of death in this scene is the death of his morals #but his moment of rebirth is when he regains his humanity and spares the guy’s life #this is also the climax of the film as he shows the guy mercy and he repays it by killing the main antagonist for him #epic bro move right there. anyway the resurrection ends with the family all crying together in a huddle #gotta get that satisfying catharsis out of the way so they can grow and learn from this experience together #the Resurrection ends with the Return which starts after the time skip obvi lol #can you tell I studied these tropes in college?

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