A type of situational archetype would be "The Initiation." This type of archetype has the characteristics of an adolescent who comes to maturity and adulthood. This archetype appears in the movie "Slumdog Millionaire". I believe it occurs in this movie because the main character, Jamal, grows from a young boy living in the slums to a successful man. Then he ended up winning a million dollars so his whole life was building up to this point when he wins the prize and end up with the woman he loved.
Another achetype would be "The Task". This achetype has the characteristics of a hero having to do a task to save the kingdom, win the lady, and to identify himself in a rightful place in society. A movie this archetype appears in would be "Wanted". A scene this archetype appears is when the leader, Sloan, gives out hit orders for the assassins to kill. This would count as a task because the main character "Wesley" gets orders to kill people who are a threat to the world. Another part was that he was training hard to match up to the skills of a girl he liked.
A third situational archetype is "The Quest". This archetypes characteristics is the main character searches for a person or object to fix everything. A movie that goes with this archetype is "Balto". This movie belongs with it because the towns children are getting sick and they need someone to get medicine from the next city. So Balto, the dog, goes on a quest to prove he deserves to be a lead dog and get the medicine.
The last archetype I'll talk about is "The Journey". This is about the main character being sent in search of information. The movie that follow this archetype is "Shutter Island". This movie belongs to this because the main character "Teddy Daniels" goes to the island, which is an insane asylum to research phenomenons. But what he finds out is that he was there because he went crazy after his wife drowned his children and killed herself. As he was returning from war.
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