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Just so you know, this was hard. I had to watch it twice to get the stages matched correctly.
You know what the lesson is that Jane learns by the end of the film.
So the moment in the film where she articulates that lesson is Stage 12. What moment is that?
So now you know Stage 12.
The mentor is always the person who helps the hero learn the lesson.
Who helps Jane learn the lesson? Who pushes Jane throughout the film to put herself first?
Once you decide who that is, you know Stage 4.
You were totally right about the moment in the film when Jane changes her approach to life (Tess cutting up the dress). So if that is what changes Jane's approach, then that is Stage 7, right? (Look at the title and sub-title of Stage 7.)
Stage 1 is just Jane in her normal state before someone started pushing her to put herself first.
So Jane's Ordinary World is just whatever happens in the movie before someone pushes back on the fact that she is always helping everyone else constantly.
For the rest of the stages, you will likely need to re-watch the movie with the questions on the rest of these slides in mind as you re-watch.
I am asking the questions out of order. Sorry!
If you know Stage 7, then Stage 8 is just the ordeal that immediately follows the change in approach. After Tess cuts up the dress, what is the next big conflict that happens?
That next conflict is The Ordeal (Stage 8).
Stage 9 is the reward. So Jane blows up her life in Stage 8 and gives up putting everyone first in a big way. There is a reward for that, a validation of Stage 8. What happens AFTER STAGE 8 that validates that Jane is putting other's first?
In Stage 10, the hero starts living life as their new, changed self. What action does Jane take next (after the ordeal, after the reward) that is an example of her new, changed self?
Stage 11 is the last big battle. In Stage 11, the hero takes what she learned and faces a big thing. What would that be? That thing takes BIG courage but has HUGE rewards. And she can only take this big action because she has learned the lesson.
That big courage action is Stage 11.
We've done Stages 4 and 7-12 now.
Let's go back to the beginning and do the remaining stages.
So if the lesson is to put yourself first, then what is the call to adventure?
(The call is always related to the lesson learned.)
Stage 3 is Jane refusing the call. So, depending on what you see as the call (remember the call is related to the lesson), the next thing that happens is often the hero refusing the call.
Refusing the call is Stage 3.
In this movie, Jane starts a journey early in the movie that will lead to her learning a lesson. But she is refusing the call with everything she has for so much of the time. So Stage 5 (crossing the threshold) is just Jane really taking up the work of that journey that will lead her to learn the lesson. Embracing the journey, even if she is not happy about it.
What is the journey that is happening through most of the movie that is the set of circumstances that has never happened before to Jane that forces her to get to the point where she can learn the lesson? Really entering the work of that journey is Stage 5.
Stage 6 is just whatever happens in the movie after Stage 5 but before Stage 7 (Stage 7 is Tess cutting up the dress).
If this doesn't help, I can talk the slides through on video.
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