THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF STEPHEN STRANGE IN SCOTT DERRICKSON’S MOVIE: DOCTOR STRANGE (2016)

Many people want to be a hero and can be a hero in society. A character that identified as a hero should experience an adventure to gain something valuable and change his or her condition from zero to hero through the journey. This research explains the use of Hero's Journey concept in Scott Derrickson's superhero movie, Doctor Strange (2016). The research aims to analyze the heroic journey of the main character of the movie, A neurosurgeon named Stephen Strange that changes into a fantastic sorcerer through his journey. Many kinds of research associated with the hero's journey, yet most of them using Joseph Campbell’s monomyth concept rather than Vogler's theory. Therefore, this research use Christopher Vogler's twelve stages of Hero's Journey that is more suitable and relevant to analyze the superhero movie. The result of the analysis shows that Stephen Strange experienced the twelve stages of the hero's journey, as Vogler proposed. This conclusion also shows that Strange's adventure fits and has an accurate relevance to Vogler's theory of the hero's journey. Keywords: Doctor Strange, movie, hero, hero’s journey