Final Exam

Jaquoia Guillebeaux

Dr. Smith

ENG102

December 11, 2013

         

                  Borderlands: ‘Real World’ and Super Natural

      In the film Spirited Away, the protagonist (Chihiro) crosses numerous boundaries, thresholds, and literal doorways before she is able to gain the knowledge and wisdom that she needed in order to free herself, as well as her parents from the spirit world. Chihiro is the heroine ( female with courage throughout the movie), who is ten years old. Her and her parents were moving into a new house, when they stumbled across a mysterious looking tunnel. The mother and father wanted to check it out but Chihiro was scared; they all went through anyway. They thought that it was an old abandoned amusement park. There was food sitting out, cooked and smelling good. Chihiro parents started eating the food and thought they should pay later. As chihiro walked away, she ran into a boy name Haku. He warned her to leave before it gets dark. When she returned to her parents, they had been turned into pigs. Scared little Chihiro ran off but it was too late because it had turned dark and the spirits have come out.

     Haku informed Chihiro that the only way she can save her parents and leave the spirit world is if she got a job; if she didn’t find work the witch of the spirit world Yubaba would turn her into pigs as well. Chihiro went to the boiling room to speak to Kamaji about a job. He was a spider type spirit and sent her to the witch, Yubaba. Chihiro had to get pass a bunch of spirits that wanted her to ‘turn’.

          When she reached Yubaba, she was turned down. Chihiro didn’t take no for an answer and got a job at the spa like place. In the Supernatural world anything is possible that wouldn’t normally happen. She had seen spirits walking around at night. There was even a spirit named No Face that was eating people. Supernatural is basically attributed to any force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. The magic that was endured in the film Spirited away was amazing. In the ‘real world’ as we call it, things are just plain so it’s cool to read on things that can’t normally happen. When we read or watch something from the supernatural, it allows us to experience something we can’t; The characters feels it for us.  

Entry 9

         In the movie ‘Stardust’ directed by Matthew Vaughn, There were many different archetypes but the one that actually stood out to me was the lover archetype. The reason I chose lover is because, through the entire movie Tristan Thorn is such a lover boy. He is ‘in love’ with a women named Victoria that is about to be married to another man soon but still he wanted to win over her love. She didn’t seem too interested in him until they saw a fallen star. Tristan tells her that he would go and bring her the star to show his love to her.

        

         Along the way to finding this star, he crosses over a wall into the magical world. He crashes into the star and finds out that this female named Yvaine. Tristan ties her up and tells her that he will take her to Victoria to show his true love to her. Little did they know that the witches wanted Yvaine heart to eat so they can have their beauty back forever.

          

          They went through so much while trying to get to Victoria. The witch was after them, trying to kill them. Even through the madness, Tristan remained a lover simply because he did not kill anyone. He then fell in love with Yvaine. He tried to still keep his word with Victoria by bringing her a piece of the star (some of Yvaine’s hair) and he told her that he wasn’t in love with her. At the end of the movie Tristan found what true love with. True love cannot be bought (like he tried to do with Victoria) it a feeling that you would get and know when it happen.