The Matrix Vs. Star Wars

The Hunger Games.

Anything, and I do mean anything, from the Marvel universe. They’re all the exact same fucking movie.

Oh my yes Hunger Games! I don't think I can with Marvel but that they are ALL THE SAME was Campbell's point, which lends him some credibility. He seems to have fallen into the oubliettes. Is there a particularly strong Hero plot in one of the Marvels? The new Spiderman doesn't seem to have lifted off yet into a journey.

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Keanu Reeves is the best looking thing you will ever see.

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Definitely Iron Man, or Dr Strange, if you’re looking for Marvel Movies

La La Land!

Some attention to Dr. Strange for Hero's Journey. I don't know it but I'll watch it tomorrow. Thanks!

Apocalypse Now.

FFF practically used Heart of Darkness as a template

If your doing screenwriting, (one of the) best screenplays ever : Chinatown.

Chinatown follows the Hero's Journey? Hmmm

The not very good Lucy?

It's not in the past 5 years, but 2009 Star Trek?

Deadpool for the modern super hero.

Almost every movie adheres to the formula. For girly examples, try Devil Wears Prada or Working Girl.

Some argue that Rogue One is a modern darker hero to compare to Luke, so, like Deadpool I guess.

Maybe Mad Max: Fury Road

Wizard of Oz

The porn where the girl says "right in front of my salad!"

I watched Doctor Strange but Strange is too nasty as a character - budding hero, through much of the movie. He's no Frodo, Luke or Spiderman. Or Katniss.

Not sure if you're looking to do children's movies -- a point can be made for how early we begin our myths -- but The Lion King and the original Land Before Time (A forgotten gem) both follow the hero's journey.

Also, the original Spiderman with Tobey Maguire is a pretty straightforward hero's journey. More current is the first Guardians of the Galaxy.

I don't have any kids, but if I had a daughter, I'd rather she looked to Ripley from Alien or Whatshername in the Mad Max remake for inspiration, rather than The Devil Wears Prada. My sister and I had an argument recently about the Maleficent movie-she thought it was a fundamentally sexist premise disguised as feminism--bitter, vengeful barren woman redeemed by maternal love, but in a vengeful world, I don't see anything wrong with a message about letting go of wrath in exchange for love, and anyway, she steals the affection of the king's daughter so you could argue she gets an even more definitive revenge.

But kids are saturated in cartoons and unreality, so if I were teaching a film class on the theme of the hero's journey that girls could relate to and didn't want to alienate the boys with preachy feminism, you can't do any better than Silence of the Lambs (needs no explanation) or the 2014 immigrant saga, In Brooklyn. Just because the heroine's adversaries don't shoot lasers out their eyes doesn't make them any less daunting.

Harry Potter all of the three main characters undergo the hero's journey together.

If you're going the girl-centered route suggested by R22 all of these heroines take a hero's journey: for a fantasy film Moana, The Whale Rider for realistic fiction, and for a non fiction film look at The Eagle Huntress , a 2015 documentary about a Mongolian girl who defies her culture to become just that (she trains and hunts with an eagle btw). Even though the heroes are female men play a significant part in their lives both as antagonists and protagonists so you could generate lively debate with the young men too.

Looking at your original choices you could also look at The New Star Wars trilogy - with Rey as the hero.

I hate it when teachers try to be hip and reach the youths with modern movies or books. I had to sit through Twilight and the Hunger Games English lit classes. Hunger Games at least was written by a real author with a master's degree, while Twilight is just fanfic written by a horny housewife. But the classes were horrible. Use the classics or something useful!