Myths in Mass Media

Randomly last night my friend and I decided to watch a movie. We have a lot of favorites so we picked one we had not watched in a long time. The movie we watched was "The Legend of Bagger Vance" staring Will Smith, Matt Daemon, and Charlize Theron. It was a little weird the next day (this morning) in class when we started talking about myths. Ok, so here is a summary of "The Legend of Bagger Vance" So Junah and Adele are in love. Junah is an amazing golfer in georgia. Everyone expects him to go the distance considering at 16 his is breaking records and blowing everyone away with his skill. Then the war comes and Junah goes off to war leaving Adele and the entire town behind. The war is hard on Junah and he doesn't return for 10 years. When he does return, his small town is being destroy by the depression. To help the town and give it hope Adele decides to hold a golf tournament. This tournament will bring money to the town because she plans on hosting 2 of the greatest golfers. The town wants one of their own to compete to keep the prize money within the town. They call on Junah. He is hesitant at first but decides to help. the problem is, he has lost his "touch". Junah basically sucks at golf. In comes Bagger Vance (Will Smith). Bagger is a run down, probably homelesss wanderer. Nobody even knows where he came from. He helps Junah realize his potential and turn his golf game around. Suprise surprise Junah manages to win the tournament and save his town.
There are soo many myths running in this movie...probably most if not all of them. But the one that is most obvious is the "Wisdom of the Rustic" Bagger is clearly the "rustic" a random guy that is a completely unlikely source of wisdom that influences Junah, a guy that had everything going for him and threw it away. With out Bagger's influence Junah would have never competed let alone succeeded in the Golf tourny. Not only did Bagger fix Junah golf problems, but he gave him the tools he needed to fix his life, help his town, and discover himself. This movie is awesome and i encourage anyone to see it if they haven't. It also provides a great example of myths present in movies.