She tells them that the kiss from a princess before midnight would truly reverse the curse and Tiana’s childhood friend, Charlotte, conveniently fits the criteria. Later in that stage, the firefly and the alligator help Tiana and Naveen find the good voodoo woman Mama Odie, who they seek solutions and answers from for their situation. During this stage, they come across enemies such as the alligators and the hunters, but they also find allies such as the friendly jazz-playing alligator Louis and the quirky firefly Ray. This marks the beginning of the Road of Trials stage. When they finally land, they eventually find themselves surrounded by alligators, trying to eat them. The Crossing the Treshold stage begins when Tiana and Naveen find themselves causing chaos at the party and then flying away with a balloon to an unknown location. The Need then becomes to find a solution to solve the situation for both of them. The Need stage, though, definitely continues when Tiana finds the courage to kiss frog Naveen, but instead of reversing his curse, she becomes a frog herself. However, this may seem as a bit of a stretch and also the Meeting with the Mentor stage seems to be missing at that point in the story. I would say that prince Naveen, appearing as a frog, could potentially be considered Call to Adventure and that Tiana, refusing to kiss him at first, could potentially be Refusal of Call. This devastates her to the point that she is looking for any sign and any hope for her dream to come true, so she even wishes on a star, despite knowing that it is just a silly childish thing. Firstly, Tiana’s dreams are crushed at the event, where she is told in passing that someone else is going to buy the place that she has been saving money for. The Need stage could potentially be interpreted in a few ways. The stage continues with a time jump to an older Tiana, whose busy life, goals and dreams are then presented to the audience.

This marks the beginning of The Ordinary World stage/Establishing the Protagonist. The story begins with an opening sequence, which introduces Tiana (our hero) and Charlotte (a childhood friend and an ally to the hero) as children, listening to a fairy tale about a princess who kissed a frog, which then turned into a prince. In this blog entry, I will analyse the story arc in The Princess and the Frog according to these stages, as I am curious whether a Disney princess’s arc can fit the Hero’s Journey model. Change (~ Resurrection, Return with Elixir).Need (~ from Call to Adventure to Meeting with the Mentor).These stages can be often summarised in eight points: The Hero’s Journey was a story arc model, created by Joseph Campbell and summarised by Christopher Vogler in the Writer’s Journey, consisting of 12 stages: While the exact story arc model may differ from production to production, most heroic narratives tend to follow the stages of the Hero’s Journey. All stories follow an arc and some defined model of character types and action.

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