Post 4: A film dealing with the 'MYTHS AND HEROES' notion

MYTHS AND HEROES 

TAKEN

Taken is a 2008 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valence, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins and Famke Janssen.

Kim is 17 and the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her

reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak  briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

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                                                Taken - Official Trailer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJVJBm9TPA

I think that in this movie the notion 'Myths and Heroes' is very present even if it is not about a traditional hero. And exactly it is one of the reasons for which I chose this movie and not an other one.

During all the film we can see that Bryan mills is a heroe because he is the main character and in more he has to save his daughter in few hours and arrive to find her. He has noble qualities, in the face of danger and adversity, he displays courage and the will for self sacrifice.