The Blues Brothers Hero Cycle In The movie "The Blues Brothers" (1980), the main character Joliet Jake Blues travels the hero's journey along with his brother Elwood, to save the orphanage in which they grew up. They face many obstacles along this journey and receive help from many different sources. The call for the journey comes after Joliet Jake's release from prison, he had vowed to visit the mother nun at the orphanage they were raised in, and was now forced to go by his brother. Once they arrive they are soon greeted by their friend and mentor Cab Calloway an old friendly janitor from the orphanage who tells them that the bank wants to foreclose on the land. Although it is never stated it is inferred that the mother at the orphanage scared Jake with the concept of evil, and wanted to go on this journey in order to cleanse himself of this evil. This is a transformative crisis because Jake has never before been a religious man, he has never before worried about the after life. It is a sudden irrational fear which derives from the lecture which the nun gave them upon their return to the orphanage. The Threshold is overcome when the blues brothers visit the church of Reverend Cleophus James who inspires Jake and Elwood to reunite their former band, The Blues Brothers, in order to earn enough money to save the orphanage. Jake is touched by the reverends sermon he is scared into action by the idea of eternal damnation. He has an epiphany during the church's gospel number and vows to form his old band a new. This is not as easy as it sounds. Jake faces many challenges simply convincing his former band-mates to rejoin the band. This is an unknown for Jake because for the first time other musicians want nothing to do with him. Before he went to prison he was royalty among musicians, but now because he owed so much money, no one trusted him. He had never been in this position before and had do a to of reconciling in order to over come this obstacle. The abyss was directly linked to the challenge because it proved to cause Jake to overcome another challenge. The abyss was when the band could not find a paying job, this caused the major challenge of keeping the band together. Jake was forced to promise everyone large pay days in order to convince them to rejoin the band, so when no money began coming in the band got angry, and a call for a mutiny was made. The transformation occurs when Jake and Elwood are held up at a gas station waiting for a delivery of gas to come in. Because they are late once they arrive at the venue they are able to see all of the cop cars which have surrounded the perimeter, meaning there would be no escape. Seeing this and becoming a changed and righteous man, Jake marches onward to save the orphanage. The revelation occurs in the form of a business man, who offers them a record deal and enough cash to save the orphanage, and pay the band. He then informs them of a back entrance, and the light is viewable at the end of the tunnel of their journey. All they have to do is escape, go to chicago, deliver the money to the accounting firm of the city, and save the orphanage. Jakes atonement comes right after he delivers the cash for the orphanage. After running from the police for nearly the entire movie, he is able to go peace fully without a fight. He is contempt with the life he has had outside of prison, and knows the sacrifice he made and is contempt with his life. In the final scene of the movie Jake is seen playing with his band, which has been reunited in prison. They play the song "Jailhouse Rock" and are able to once again deliver the gift of beautiful music, this time to their fellow prisoners. Joliet jake Blues grows a great deal along this journey, he becomes spiritual and redeems himself and most importantly becomes satisfied with himself. After being restless and unhappy in his life before the movie, where he felt it necessary to steal more money to order to make himself happy, he learns to be contempt with what he has, and sacrifices the rest for good.