Results tagged “mythicfigurations”

In Joseph Campbell's hugely influential work of comparative mythology, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, the world's hero myths are boiled down to three narrative stages: the action, the trials, and the hero at home. But what about that fourth stage, when the retired hero is puttering around the house with no greater trial than cleaning the leaves out of the gutter? In mythic figurations: a power triptych, the plight of the washed-up hero is milked for steady laughs by Ilan Bachrach, who plays "The Warrior," a shirtless slob with a hairline that's receding as steadily as his odds of ever slaying a dragon again.