The archetypal quest, also known as the hero’s journey, is effective in revealing which ways a person’s values, ideas and ambitions can be explored and changed throughout society. The hero’s journey is a genre that is prominently seen through nearly every sort of text, written or visual, usually representing an internal or physical struggle to gain a sense of personal character or personal identity, or to achieve a goal that one has claimed to be unachievable. Matthew Vaughn’s film Stardust represents all aspects of the hero’s journey, including the original quest narrative of facing and overcoming multiple obstacles to achieve a miraculous goal.
Stage One - Separation:
Tristan, the main character in the movie, promises Victoria, the fairest girl in an English village called Wall, that he will travel across the wall to find and bring back a fallen star, in order to win her love. Although he loves Victoria and doesn’t want to leave her, he takes the risk and travels to find the falling star. At the wall that divides his world from the magical world on the other side, called Stormhold, Tristan is at first kept back by an old man who guards the Wall. But, with persistence and trickery, Tristan does cross this threshold, and enters a world that is off-limits to all who live in the village of Wall.
Stage Two - Adventure:
Once on the other side, Tristan discovers a beautiful woman named Yvaine where the star had fallen. Neither Yvaine nor Tristan is aware yet that a group of witches, headed by Lamia, intends to trap Yvaine, because if they eat her heart it will restore youth and power to them. But others, as we soon learn, also have reason to pursue Yvaine. The sons of the deceased King seek a stone that he threw into the sky while on his deathbed, declaring that whoever found it would be the next king. The son named Septimus learns that the jewel Yvaine is wearing is the same stone that he seeks. In the meantime, Tristan and Yvaine have fallen in love, but when Tristan goes back to the village on his own to tell Victoria he no longer loves her, he soon realizes that Yvaine would die if she crossed the wall, and that he must rush to save her.
Stage Three – Return:
When Tristan returns to Stormhold, Yvaine has already been trapped by Lamia and her friends. Tristan soon finds himself united with Septimus in an effort to stop the witches from destroying Yvaine. Inside the witches’ castle, Septimus dies at the hands of Lamia, who uses a voodoo doll to turn the dead corpse of Septimus into Tristan’s opponent. But, in the end, it is Yvaine herself who destroys Lamia (after the other two witches have died). Yvaine’s love for Tristan gives her strength to overpower Lamia. In the meantime, Tristan learns from Una (a slave girl) that he is in fact the son of Una, and that she is the only daughter of the King. As the sole surviving male heir to the throne, Tristan becomes the rightful new king of Stormhold, with Yvaine as queen. They are crowned in a magnificent ceremony.
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