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Monomyth Map of the Matrix
Matrix Monomyth Mapping
Ordinary World – Agents, Secret services, FBI, police, girl, office with guy jamming, Thomas (neo) Anderson in apartment building living alone and surviving off of petty illegal jobs, has trouble with the authority, works in a high status job building, has own desk/office, lives two lives (one respectable in a soft way company) other (online world as a hacker)
Call to Adventure – “follow the white rabbit”  computer “matrix” willing him to go on, trial one, was told that he was the hero that would end this war and defeat the matrix (phone call in office), bridge call
Refusal of the Call – clicked the escape button, goes out of the building with authority instead of scalpel thing, gives authority the finger
Meeting with the Mentor/Supernatural Aid –Person on the phone who guided him out of the authorities grasp, person on the phone telling him that he is “the one”, man in the black coat and glasses (morphious), tank who teaches him combat (MORPHEOUS)
Crossing the first threshold – takes the red pill, wakes up in real world to get all blahy
Entering the belly of the whale – Went inside the matrix (go visits the oracle)
Meeting with the god/goddess – oracle
Trials – First trial was to exit out of the building using the scalpel (failed), Put under pressure with the authority, in the car with the “my way or highway” stuff, going through the different dream worlds, training program for the matrix, learning martial arts/fighting, ordeal, message from the oracle
Entering the Innermost Cave – When he goes on the task of sacrificing his own life to save morphious. He is facing the biggest terror of AI people, to save his best friend, and he needs to use all his last lessons and training, and belief to get by it and save his Capitan.
Ordeal – He fights the airport people and etc. to save the general
Ultimate Boon – saved the general from the questioning area and from death. He successfully got him home and then continued to fight with the AI dude.
Crossing the second threshold – begins to believe in himself and fight the different people all while attempting to get home, and believe that can do so alive. Also he saved the general.
Atonement with father- tries to beat his guide when training
Refusal of Return – wants to save the general instead of staying safe! Let’s the people go back first. Doesn’t choose to run, but instead he fights with the agent. “My name is neo.”
Showdown/Catharsis/Climax – Huge fight with all the people + fights the man in the suit when he is left behind because the phone had been broken. He is on his own, doesn’t know if he will survive and there is no other phone in sight for him to use. Blows agent up
Death of Dream/Black Moment – When he was shot + died, ship is being attacked
Rescue from without – she kissed him and he came back to life, phone call guiding him where to go
Crossing the third threshold – realizes that anything can be manipulated
Resurrection – he got shot multiple times by agents, then is dead, gets kissed by trinity brought back to life with the realization “anything is possible”/ “nothing is real”
Master of two worlds – When he realizes that nothing is real (spoon thing), can live in the matrix and real world
Freedom to live – message on phone, when he breaks the system (breaks the Matrix) film ends with Neo flyin’

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