Week 8
February 28, 2018
This week, the topic is mythic fiction and contemporary urban fantasy and since I have not had much time this week, I watched the new 2017 Jumanji movie. The question that we are asked today is, how was myth reinvented within the context of the movie? And in what ways were the myth made relevant to the contemporary world?
To start, Jumani is about a group of students whose lives dramatically change one day when they are all in detention together. They start to play a video game that they found and one by one they get sucked into the game. When arriving into the game, they realize they are not themselves. They are in the bodies of the characters that they chose to play in the game. Ruby Roundhouse, Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Professor Shelley Oberon, and Moose Finbar are the characters in the game that they take the roles of as well as the skills of. They have to be careful and work together and try not to loose their lives and once they run out of lives, its game over for that person. Their goal is to win the game and to return to the real world by lifting the curse by returning the jewel to the top of the jaguar statue.
To answer the first question, the myth is reinvented in the film by the characters being sucked into the game to save everyone in order to return home, as well as return the jewel to the jaguars eye. In order to win the game, they need to return the jewel and lift the curse, return the jewel and call out Jumanji's name in order to return back to normal life.
To answer the second question, the myths that were made relevant to the contemporary world would be through the video game that they play that ends up sucking them through the television into the world of Jumanji.
Overall, I personally really enjoyed the film. Compared to the old movie with Robin Williams, id say they did a pretty good job at creating the film and the illusions in which they are trying to show.
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