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• Context using text and visuals [we learn about the Nostromo].
• Introducing characters, motivations, status [Ripley et al wake up and eat].
• Call to Adventure [Mother tells Dallas they're on a detour].
• Hero's capabilities [Ripley knows it's not the right system].
• Refusal of the Call [Dallas tells the crew that they're on a detour; they don't like it; Hawks and Doves polarized].
• Journey to the First Threshold on the Magic Carpet is not smooth [to the planet on the Nostromo; the ship can just about make it; repairs needed after landing].
• Viewing the First Threshold from a distance [inside the ship]. Very unwelcoming, inhospitable. Hawks push for the adventure and Doves push against it [Kane wants to go in, Lambert not too thrilled].
• Preparing to enter the First Threshold.
• Entering the First Threshold. Dangerous. Completely different from the World they are familiar with [dark, windy, inhospitable].
• Hero meets Allies [Ripley argues with Parker, interacts with Ash and we meet Jones].
• Doves against the adventure, Hawks for it [Kane versus Lambert].
• Threshold Guardian [the ship and the fossilized skeleton].
• Hero resistant to the adventure. Pushed into it by the Shape Shifter.
• Into the depths. Kane proceeds down. No Way Back (1). Kane attacked by the alien pod.
• No Way Back (2) . Ripley resistant to letting them into the ship. Countered by the Shape Shifter.
• Road of Trials (1). Learning. We learn that the alien is keeping Kane alive and has acid for blood.
• Preparing for the physical separation [Brett and Parker repair the Nostromo].
• Polarization between the Hero and Shape Shifter developed [Ripley versus Ash].
• Trial. Conflict. [finding the dead alien in Kane's room].
• Hero Shape Shifter polarization developed. Ash, Dallas and Ripley examine the alien [Ripley wants to kill it, Ash wants to keep it].
• Hero and Ally relationship developed [Ripley and Dallas].
• Belly of the Whale [Nostromo takes off]. Characters developed.
• Marker of change. Alien explodes out of Kane's chest.
• Reaction to the change [Kane's burial].
• Road of Trials Ripley et al hunt for the Alien; Brett killed].
• Realizing the magnitude of the task [“that thing is huge.”] Preparing for next Trials.
• Foreshadow of the coming Ordeal [Dallas in the computer room].
• Road of Trials [Dallas dies in the shaft].
• Hero and Shape Sifter polarization.
• Seize the Sword. Ripley finds out that the specimen is to be collected.
• Woman as Temptress. Near death experience [Ash nearly kills Ripley; Ash dies].
• Atonement with the Father [Ripley faces the revived Ash].
• Apotheosis. They cannot kill the Alien.
• Ultimate Boon. They're going to blow up the ship.
• Refusal of the Return [Ripley et al prepare to escape].
• Rescue from Without. Ripley forced back in order to rescuer Parker and Lambert. Ripley triggers the nuke.
• Crossing the Return Threshold. Ripley tries to disarm the nuke.
• Magic Flight. Ripley makes a run for it. Escapes. Nostromo destroyed.
• Master of the Two Worlds. Hand-to-hand battle. Ripley throws it out into space.
• Freedom to Live. Jones put to sleep. Physical expressions of Joy: Ripley smiles.Buy the Complete Hero's Journey...more than 188 stages of the journey you need to know about...
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