mastermindessay

The Mastermind is the brains of the operation. But this does not mean that there has to be an operation. A mastermind is merely the person who thinks ahead and comes up with an ingenious plan. without a mastermind there is no problem for the hero to face, or perhaps the hero is also a mastermind and he comes up with a solution to solve a problem.

It was the end of the Trojan War, and the Acheans needed to find a way to win. So Odysseus devised a way to fool the Trojans. A giant hollow wooden horse, an animal sacred to the Trojans. So the Acheans abandoned the beach they were camping at, and hid on a different part of the island. When the Trojans came, they saw the horse and thought it was a gift, so they took it and brought it inside the city and celebrated the end of the war. But there were soldiers inside the horse along with Odysseus. and when all the Trojans were asleep they got out and opened the gates so the rest of the army could enter and sack the city.

In remote antiquity, the four poles of the Universe collapsed, and the world descended into chaos. The firmament was no longer able to cover everything, and the earth was no longer able to support itself. Fire burned wild, and waters flooded the land. Fierce beasts ate common people, and ferocious birds attacked the old and the weak. So Nüwa used the five-colored stone to mend the Heavens, cut off the feet of the great turtle to support the four poles, killed the black dragon to help the earth, and gathered the ash of reed to stop the flood.

The film "//Fight Club//" is centered around one man who remains nameless, and his struggle to go beyond the normal. One day he meets a man who goes by Tyler Durden, whom he met on a plane. When the narrator goes home, he finds it to be destroyed, caused by a massive explosion. So he calls up Tyler and they meet at a bar. When they go to leave, Tyler tells the narrator to punch him in the face. Soon, they start fighting, afterwards they discuss how good it felt. Shortly after they start fighting everynight, while crowds of men come to watch. They soon find themselves in charge of a huge underground fighting club. Every time they go, it seems as though more and more people come. You come to find out that there are fight clubs in many cities, and members extend into the police force. The narrator and Tyler Durden are masterminds in the sense that they created a massive "army" of men in this organization that they created.

The film "//The Sting//" is about two men trying to pull off a scam. A man named Hooker and his partner Luther scam a man on a train ride. The deal goes bad and the man whom they conned turned out to be a big crime boss. They kill Luther and Hooker flees to Chicago. He gets together with a man named Gondorff, and together they come up with a big con to get back Lonegan (the big crime boss). Hooker and Gondorff are masterminds because they created a big con to catch someone and get a lot of money from them.

I believe that the mastermind archetype comes from man's desire to create a complicated sceme to fool someone, or maybe accomplish a task. i think that it also comes from the feeling of joy after you have done something extremely difficult, the way it pays off is worth it.