The Archetype of the Warrior - How Films Help Empower Us All 

Leon: The Professional assassin? Christian Bale in The Prestige, he fights in his own way. Dr Manhattan in Watchmen. Tom Hanks in saving private ryan. The two snipers in black hawk down who are defending the downed blackbird. Denzel Washington in Man on fire. Ripley...in Alien.

I totally forgot to say, this is fantastic work. You know its funny, I watched an interview with Gary Oldman about Darkest hour. He suggested that someone interweaves Darkest Hour with Dunkirk. I can't think of a better channel to do this than yours. Would make for really interesting viewing.

I have to say the DC Trinity of Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman, especially since I grew up watching the Justice League animated series. As of right now, I think The Last Jedi really fits in relation to Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren's characters and their struggles with the light. In allowing himself to be an absolutist for even a moment, Luke set Ben Solo on a dark path. Rey's hero worship of the Jedi is changed by her experiences and she becomes something more. Kylo Ren's conflicts play out so powerfully on screen, where his path will take him will be a very interesting one. The Star Wars saga has always been a struggle of light vs dark. The other parts of the franchise like the novels, comics, cartoons, and games gave much more room for more complex stories. It was so refreshing to see that on the big screen.

Kingdom of heaven, but solely the director's cut.

My suggestion does not fit your question. I point to the mastery of one's mind as philosophized within the Buddhist tradition of Mindful Meditation. This perspective gains character when one overlays the metaphor of the quadrune brain, the housing of the mind which has evolved over the last 500 million years and is host to a vast ocean of karmic conditioning. Where this metaphor, the quadrune brain, simplifies down to four evolutionary layers of the Reptilian, the Middle Brain, and the Neo-Cortex which is subdivided to include the very recently evolved (in evolutionary time scale) PreFrontal Cortex. Even within the Buddhist tradition, one of their greatest philosophers pointed to the need to war for the purpose of the goal, awakening. If one recognizes the legitimacy of J. Campbell's perspective on the roots of myth, initially described in his "Hero of a Thousand Faces", and fleshed out in his Mythos series of lectures just before his passing, then each of these reflect the path to mastery and awakening, or using Jung's term, individuation. These archetypes described by Carol Pearson in "The Heros Within" reflect what humanity is capable of attaining. All movies which ennoble this are worthy of suggestion.

Anger can be productive - i don't care what Lao Tzu had to say.

Rage is a hell of a motivator. You’ll learn that throughout life.

Yeah, but he has an accent. LOL! But, we all have accents. You're right in sharing these videos. A proper expression of the best of culture invites better learning. My advice for speaking English is to speak slowly and stress the consonants. (I've worked all over the world to include Brazil. Obrigado!)

Hello from the US! My spanish teacher has 2 PhD's. She earned one in Brazil and one in the US. She is about 5 feet tall but her personality is huge. She has great in depth opinions on everything. I'm not entirely sure but I think ahe said she went to that same college. Anyway, have a nice day.

@@igloo54 I love his accent. I don't know where he is from but it is a lovely accent. It makes you feel calm. Lovely accent to have.

Boa mano!

@@igloo54 I'm in for the accent.. calming

Excellent idea.

I believe that would be under the “Magician” archetype

Or Creator

it would be a middle point within the magician (creator) and warrior ( endurance)

@@sage7172 there is an archetype for literally everything. Read archetypes of the collective unconscious by Carl Jung. He invented archetypes and is one of the founding fathers of psychology

He really is becoming the culmination of the whole genre... No words alone could strike so deep as those embedded with meaningful and relatable scenes and music...

totally!, i can sign that.. Loved all of them so far. Especially the writing and spot on editing are beautiful.

I am way impressed with his work. His commentary was delivered smoothly. Intertwined with many persona. The graphics was exciting and aligned well with his message. In going to watch all of his videos!

Rejoy Panakkal Along with 'victories' and defeats that help gain a Warrior his or her own inner pride and a sense of self purpose not only to oneself but in the satisfaction of helping and defending others usually lead to NOT being able to lay down the weapons and finally coming home, once and for all to greener pastures? Can the warrior and the warrior spirit truly and finally be at peace within him or herself?

@@darrin7684 I think they can if they have no pride or sense of egoistic achievement. There is evil: terrorism, imperialism, oppression. The warrior is needed. The warrior does not kill the dragon to be a hero, but only because they have to do it to fulfill their duties. They know there is nothing to be proud of as it is the bare minimum that must be done. The shadow warrior can get proud by this, not the warrior.

ditto, am teared-up right now

You’re just easily impressed by fake shit that make insecure people like you feel good despite it being fake.

underrated comment

The shadow warrior archetype has made quite an impact on people's views and I agree that it deserves an in depth look in its own right

Grumbles well its still a warrior but has dfferent views. He is not worse then the archetype he is just a rival.

Have you watched his video about the joker?

@Kieran Donald "The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well. But one must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is. For what comes after the door is, surprisingly enough, a boundless expanse full of unprecedented uncertainty, with apparently no inside and no outside, no above and no beyond, no here nor there, no mine no thine, no good and no bad." - Carl Jung

​@Natasel «A villain is just some one else's hero. The only real difference is one wins and the other loses» Not necesarelly. The positive shadow form is someone who uses one of the four energies in a way that only benefits him or herself, taking advantage and harming others. The tyrant, the bully, the trickster, the stalker... Those aren't anyone's hero, regardless of who is winning and losing. They are universally evil. The negative shadow form is someone who is unable to use any of the four energies in any way, even if willing to do so, and therefore, is used and abused by the positive shadows. The weakling, manipulated by the tyrant; the abused, beaten by the bully; the naif, cheated by the trickster; and the impotent, incapable of love. They are universally victims. You are thinking more in terms of politics, and not in archetypes, I believe.

Thank you, so much for saying this. I Dont even know who you are, and you certainly Dont know me but, thanks

“The art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.” - Carlos Castaneda, Journey To Ixtlan.

Beamber the problem with Neo is that he's part of one of those "chosen one" stories where it's not by his actions that he realises he has the capacity to become the warrior but at least he reaches his potential through his own actions

Mike Tyson that man was definitely a warrior

Push most people to the brink of life ending violence and you will see that they will fight tooth and nail to their last breath. Don’t take anyone lightly, even the unseemly coward

@@333rdAlchemist Where's the math

@@respiratoryfailure3780 cant mathematically explain human nature, buddy

Lmfao

same

warrior,sleep