Legally a Heroine
Hey guys! Welcome back for the third blog post for this semester! Today I will talk about how the movie Legally Blond follows the Heroine's Journey pattern and how this can help us better understand the narrative as it progresses. This movie follows this pattern almost perfectly, with all 9 stages clearly identifiable throughout the story. Looking at this movie through the lens of Victoria Linn Schmidt's Heroine's Journey allows you to better understand the events that happen throughout, as well as the character development of Elle. To begin, let's look at the stages of the Heroine's Journey. First, "The Illusion of the Perfect World." This stage is fairly straightforward to identify at the beginning of the movie. She is happy with her boyfriend, everyone likes her, and she thinks nothing can go wrong. Then, very soon after this part, we see "The Betrayal or Realisation" stage, where her boyfriend breaks up with her to go to law school, which cau...