Film Analysis

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Ordinary World:Cylde Shelton is a Engineer, and a very smart man. He is a happy Father, with a beautiful daughter and wonderful wife.
Call to Adventure:Clyde owes some money to a man by the name of Darby and fails to pay up, so Darby comes to his home, knocks Clyde down, kills his daughter, and rapes his wife and kills her as well while Clyde is laying on the floor, watching,unable to move.

Refusal:At the trial there is not enough evidence to convict Darby, and only his accomplish Rupert Ames is sent to the death row and Darby only has to serve three years in prison. After Clyde pleads with his lawyer, Nick Rice, he's only disappointed to find out there is nothing he can do because there's no evidence and the justice system just doesn't work that way.

Mentor:To me, Nick Rice in a way is Clyde's Mentor. By telling him that it was just how the justice system works in america it set him off to show the country how terrible their system really was.

Threshold: Ten years later,Clyde becomes a violent sociopath and is arrested as the chief suspect for Darby's death.

Test, Allies, Enemies: Clyde is a very smart man and his only allie is himself. Where on the other hand everyone involved in his wife's and daughters case is his enemy.

Approach:In order for Nick to get a real confession out of him, Clyde makes a deal. He wants a new mattress with a soft pillow. Once in Jail he makes another deal in order for them to find a detective that he has buried alive. All he wants is a steak from a certain restaurant delivered at 1:15 and he will tell them where the body is. He uses the T-bone from the steak and kills his cell mate and is then sent to solitary confinement.

Ordeal: Clyde has secret tunneling in solitary confinement and sneaks out to place a bomb in city hall right under a very important meeting. Nick finds the bomb and takes it back to Clydes cell and hides it under his bed. The bomb is triggered by a cell phone. Clyde thinks the bomb is still where its suppose to be so it triggers it and kills himself.

Reward: He no longer has to suffer with living without his wife and daughter.
Return with Elixir: Clyde has been able to show in some way how off Americas Justice System is and that it needs to be fixed.

Archetypes:

Hero- Clyde Shelton

Mentor- Nick Rice

Threshold Guardian- Judge Laura Burch

Herald- Nick Rice
Shapeshifter- Mysterious Co-worker

Shadow- Clarence Darby

Trickster- Nick Rice