This study analyzes the heroic journey that the main character goes through in the Captain Fantastic movie. The purpose of this thesis is to explain and analyze the heroic journey that the main character goes through. In addition, the author also uses Christopher Vogler’s the Archetypes theory. Archetypes is a way to understand the function and purpose of the characters in the story.
This study uses a qualitative method. All data was collected by watching and reading movie scripts. In collecting data, there are several steps that can be taken, such as watching and reading movie scripts, classifying data, and reducing data to obtain conclusions.
The results of this study state that Ben cash, as the main character, is a hero, seen from his life journey which is in accordance with the twelve stages of the heroic journey in Christopher Vogler's theory.
It can be concluded based on the Archetypes theory that Ben Cash is a Hero. It has been proven through an analysis of the stages of his life journey using the Hero's Journey theory. From this research, it can also be seen that the theory of hero's journey, which so far is usually only used to analyze fantasy stories and legends, can also be used to analyze modern literary works with slight modifications.
Keywords: hero’s journey, hero, movie, archetypes, christopher vogler.