The Prototype of a Hero

Bates: What's the first thing that kind of comes to your main character and tips them off or pushes them toward the movie, the story? "I feel like it's easiest to tell you by example," he says. It might be Peter Parker getting bit by a radioactive spider,. James Bond getting a mission. Indiana Jones getting a mission they come and they say, Hey, the Nazis are looking for the lost our kid. The visit from Gandalf is right. Exactly.