But at that point, Mark is way over Mars. That means removing the nosecone and the piloting and life support systems. He has to lighten the ship considerably to be able to blast off with what fuel is in it. In the rover, Mark undertakes an arduous journey across Mars to a crater where there’s a spaceship parked for a future mission. Then they’ll slingshot around Mars to head back to Earth. Mark will have to meet them in space as they fly by. The team doesn’t have the fuel to land on Mars and blast off again. Working on the sly with the Chinese, they slingshot their craft around Earth, pick up the supplies from the Chinese rocket, and head back to Mars. But Mark’s teammates, who are overjoyed to learn that he’s alive, decide to disobey NASA’s direct orders. NASA officials say no and order Mark’s original team, now approaching Earth, to land.
The Chinese, who have been monitoring the situation, are willing to let NASA use their rocket to send supplies to Mark. He’ll starve to death before he can get help from Earth. Despite his best efforts and those of the geniuses in NASA, he cannot tame Mars. Mark comes face-to-face with the death of his idealism. The rocket that was to bring Mark supplies blows up right after it blasts off. NASA’s scientists then set Mark up on a food-rationing plan that will get him through until the rocket arrives. Rather than using it to launch the next manned mission to Mars, the agency decides to use the rocket to send Mark supplies directly. Through much MacGyvering, he establishes contact with Earth and NASA.Īn explosion wipes out Mark’s potato crop, reinforcing the fact that he’s only been buying time on the hostile world. Can he use it to contact Earth? Since his rover won’t travel that far, he modifies the fuel source to take him there. From a map, he figures out where the old Pathfinder probe is buried. The stash of disco music and “Happy Days” episodes left behind by one of Mark’s teammates doesn’t substitute for companionship. However humans aren’t meant to live alone. So far, Mark is staying one step ahead of the physical demands of surviving on Mars.
Not only does he accept the challenge of surviving on Mars until the next mission arrives, but he’s idealistic that he can tame Mars until then. The potatoes grow, he harvests his first crop, then he plants another crop. He creates the greenhouse and plants potatoes. Can Mark create a greenhouse on Mars and cultivate a potato crop to help him stretch his food supply until the next mission arrives? Specifically though, Mark’s a botanist, and one of his fellow scientists left some potatoes behind.
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Using his knowledge (inner mentor), he figures out how to generate water from hydrazine rocket fuel-after one failed attempt that almost kills him. Mark concludes that he’s out of options and will die on Mars.īut Mark is a scientist. Unfortunately he has a fraction of what he needs. Hoping that he can survive until the next manned mission arrives, Mark tallies up how much food and water he has available. Then he realizes he’s been stranded on Mars. He staggers back to the Hab and performs surgery on himself. Grieving Mark, they abort their mission and blast off. Remaining on the surface in the storm to look for his body would imperil their lives. The team thinks that Mark has been killed. It’s clear that each person is well suited for the multi-year mission.Ī sudden and violent dust storm heralding the hostile nature of Mars separates Mark from his fellow scientists, destroying equipment. The team members work together well and have an easy rapport with each other. The small group’s mission is to live on the planet for about sixty days in a structure called “the Hab,” studying Mars and collecting samples. In the not-too-distant future, botanist Mark Watney is at work on the surface of Mars with his fellow scientists. There’s a spoiler alert if you haven’t yet seen the movie. And if you’re one of my students this Saturday, you’re now ahead of the class. It’s as if the writers wrote the screenplay with Joseph Campbell watching over their shoulders and nodding with approval.
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After we’ve covered that material and the seven main archetypes, I think I’ll get the class to map out the Hero’s Journey for protagonist Mark Watney in “The Martian.” The stages of the Hero’s Journey in this gem of a movie are distinct and super easy to pick out. In the plotting workshop, I map out the twelve stages of the Hero’s Journey in “Star Wars,” “Romancing the Stone,” and “Blazing Saddles” and give a lot of information about each stage. These two workshops are my condensation of material from several sources, including Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey.
On Saturday 7 November, I’ll teach my most popular workshop combo-“Plotting with the Hero’s Journey” and “Creating Archetypal Characters Instead of Stereotypes”-at the headquarters library in Fayetteville, NC.
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