Exercise 1 choose a novel or a film or a play you love and it to The Hero's Journey.

Back to The Future

I saw this film many times, I try to remember details:

Act I

Marty McFly is a student on high school. At the beginning he phones with his friend Doc Brown to record a great event at a supermarket in the night. Call to Adventure. Meantime we are introduce to Marty's family his Ordinary World, grey father chicaned by Biff, complaining mother, his siblings and his girlfriend.

He meets Brown at a large parking lot of a supermarket. Doc Brown introduces Marty his invention. It is a time machine built into a car. It is driven by plutonium which Brown stole from terrorists. When a test of the time machine is done the robbed terrorists attack Brown and shoot him death. Marty's has only one way to get out. He jumped into the car and he is send to past. Crossing the First Threshold.

Act II

Marty meets the villages from the past. He meets his father and Biff who threats him in a bar. Biff requires Marty's father to do a homework for him. Tests, Allies, Enemies. As Marty follow undercover his father he changes the past. At the beginning Marty's mother is telling a story where Marty's father is hit by a car and is cure at Marty's mother home. When Marty sees that his father is in danger they change the role. The car hit Marty instead his father. Marty's mother fall in love with Marty, her son from future. Approach to the Inmost Cave. He must persuade his father that his mother is the one for him but his father does not think that. His father is quitter and Marty is in a complicated situation. Ordeal. His siblings disappeared from photographs he has from the future. He needs his mother to fall in love in his father. It happens when Marty's father set free Marty's mother from Biff. Every thing is in order and Marty can back to home.

Act II

The road back. Marty gives a letter to Doc to tell him about the terrorist and what will happen. Doc refuses it. There is not time. They need to use a lighting which hit the clock of city hall. Marty has not time. He travels back to the future with enough time to save Doc against terrorists but he is late and he sees scene with him and how terrorists shoot down Doc Brown. After that scene he runs to Doc Brown and finds that he is alive because of the letter. Resurrection.

Doc Brown tells Marty that he wants to travel into the future and drives Marty home. Marty wakes and everything is changed. His father is successful writer, Biff clean Marty's car. Return with Elixir.