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Mythological Analysis on (2006) & (2009): Laying stress on the Hero's Journey Model Hye-Jung Cho (Graduate School of Arts, Chung-Ang University) Myth, the collective dream of human beings acts as the archetype of every culture and the source of imagination. Myths have been mixed with historical facts and fictions, reality, fantasy in the process of being passed down and orally transmitted ending up most enchanting stories. Therefore, myths are fascinating materials for movies, stories, or character patterns for sure. Future, formalizing the monsters, giants, or dwarfs appearing in the myths is much easier thanks to the development of CG and special visual effects, which is realistic even more than our imagination leading to the myths being used more in making movies. In this thesis , mythological analysis were done for the two movie texts, (2006) & (2009). The mythological analysis was carried out in three aspects such as analysis on narrative, characters, on expressive pattern of mythological imagination as the archetype of mythological characters. In narrative analysis, the Hero's Journey Model was applied to the two movies and its results showed that they were the follower of “heroic myth”. Myth may be divided largely into creation myth and heroic myth, and the former focuses the origin of universe and the place of god who control the place, while the latter moves its focus from gods to human beings. Heroes in the myths are different from men of course in the way most of their parents were either god, goddess, half-man, half-amazing or the descendents of kings. Their were born mysteriously or abandoned immediately after their birth which are very different from common growth process. But the heroes (or destined to be heros )had to complete their tasks to prove they were heroes and had to take adventure. They went through hardship, troubles and even experienced death and revival and then returned with trophies or “elixir” to which will benefit the world/human beings. Those heroes were enthroned as heroes “wholly” through adventure and even won absolute “divinity” I found out through this study that myth was holding its persistent life force through cultural contents, especially through movies, and acting as the source of imagination. Besides I newly confirmed seeing the myth being reborn repeatedly through modification and reprocess as the origin of stories that the myth also take the role of “the source of creation”.