The Last Orchard is a screenplay about two rival groups of ten-year-olds in 1989 Pharr, Texas. Their elementary school conflicts create a neighborhood war within their mobile home park, coinciding with the entire park\u27s wide eviction and land ownership crisis. The story is written with a mythic fiction approach – a method I learned through Carl Jung\u27s and Joseph Campbell\u27s works on archetypes, mythology, and the hero\u27s journey; it is a practical tool for storytelling. The Last Orchard is based on Homer\u27s Iliad: the Trojan War, its heroes, and gods. Some plays and numerous films have their mythic counterparts, along with those that have employed mythic fiction in the same manner that I have for my script. These films include: Pygmalion (1938) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
