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Batman Begins: Hero's Journey
BATMAN BEGINS

Last month I just borrowed an old movie named Batman Begins. It’s not very old, though it was released in 2002. As the others movie I have ever watched, it contains Hero, Mentor, and Shadow. These three characters are always related to the other. Generally, action movie tells about Hero’s Journey. In the movie “Batman Begins”, the Hero decided to become poor people and he travels to Special World to fight for justice and righteousness. According to Joseph Campbell, Hero’s Journey is divided into two parts: outward journey and Inward journey
Batman Begins, starring Christian as the Batman itself whose name is Bruce Wayne, is a movie that tell a story about a heroic man who save his city, taught and fought his own mentor.
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After he gets out from the jail, he starts to undergo his journey to Himalaya. He comes back after almost seven years there and practice with Ninja and Henri Ducard.
After a long time, everyone thinks that Bruce have already dead. But he just build another strength to fight with the Shadow. Fox (played by Morgan Freeman), helps him by giving “special equipment” to Bruce, such as “Kevlar utility harness, Namex survival suit, the tumbler” (from movie),
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He use Bat as a symbol, he said, “Bat frighten me. It’s time my enemy share my dread.” He also uses bat mask that made of special ingredient. In every movie, each hero will enter the “Inmost Cave” which is the most dangerous place in special world. Bruce eavesdrop the conversation about drug smuggling operation. At night, he secretly attacks Falcone and succeeded to stop the drug smuggling operation. He attacked Falcone and Falcone’s bodyguard in silent and tied up by chain. All Gotham police and Rachel guess that a guy who looks likes a bat help them to catch the Shadow. Dr. Crane (played by Cillian Murphy) helps Falcone in the drug smuggling operation, Batman knows it from a corrupt police. Then he went to his house, but he was in the wrong place and wrong time (the Ordeal). Crane knows that somebody get in to house. Batman tries to fight with his bodyguard and the Shadow, but he loses fighting with crane, because crane sprays to his face that make batman sees hallucination. Crane also sets fire to Batman, but his armor protects him from the fire. Because of that, Batman feels panic and jumps from the Crane’s house. Fortunately, Alfred comes to rescue Bruce and brings him back to

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