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- 1. Task 9: Narrative Structure The Hero – Someone you want to achieve in a movie or a book. In the movie Road Trip the hero is Josh Parker because he is the centre of the plot in the movie and the guy who leads others to Austin, Massachusetts because he needs to retrieve a tape before his long distance girlfriend sees it. We want him to succeed because he is a likable guy. The Villain – Someone you don’t want to achieve because he/she has traits that people will not like. For example, they might lie, cheat or steal or even be very cowardly. The villains lack of morals moonlights how moral the hero is in comparison. Motel Clerk would be the villain in the movie Road Trip because he is mean and jealous. He doesn’t want a girl to be with another guy (Josh Parker). The villain in my story, The Piped Piper, would probably be seen as the Piper himself because he escapes from prison after stealing the town’s money and tries to hide away. However, the villain could also be the boy because he turns into a dislikeable character after he betrays the piper by stealing his pipe. The princess/prize – This is someone or something that the hero is working for in a movie or book. Something he/she wants badly and normally has to overcome many obstacles to get. In Road Trip the princess is the Beth Wagner because she is the girl both the hero and villain want. In my Pied Piper book the prize is the pipe because both the Piper and the boy who ends up stealing it want it. The Donor – This character persuades or ready’s the hero for his adventure, normally by giving him/her a magical gift that will help him/her in their journey. Crush in Finding Nemo is a donor because he takes Marlin and Dory across the Australian Ocean and helps them complete their journey. The Helper – The helper is a person who people who help the hero succeed in their journey. The helper in Road Trip would be E.L, Kyle and Rubin because they go with josh on the road trip to retrieve the tape. The princesses Father – This is a character who normally persuades the hero to fore fill his destiny or a demand etc… The father might not like the hero because he is protective over his daughter. In the Transformers: Age of extinction movie the father is Mark Walberg whose daughter is 17 and has a 20 year old bad boy boyfriend. The False Hero – The false hero in the book would be the boy because he pretends to be the piper’s friend and companion when really he steals from him. He is also the person who tells the mayor on the piper and gets him caught so he does do some good but for an unjust cause because the piper is simultaneously the most likable character in the book. The false hero in Road Trip would be Barry Manilow (played by Tom Green)- he doesn’t go on the trip because he hasn’t left the Ithaca College for 7 years. He is the hero because he tapes over the sex tape unintentionally and then when Josh’s girlfriend finds it and plays it she doesn’t see him cheating. The dispatcher – The dispatcher is the character who sends the main character on the mission. Sometimes the dispatcher (especially in folk tales) the dispatcher is the princesses father and he wants the hero to earn his daughter by going on a quest or something similar. Dory is a dispatcher character in Finding Nemo because she prepares Marlin for his journey to find his son.
- 2. The Equilibrium – This is the starting point of a movie. It introduces the characters before an event has happened and the plot kicks off. Interstellar has about a half an hour equilibrium where it is just focussing on the father and daughters strong relationship. An equilibrium helps the audience feel closer to the characters and care for them more. Disequilibrium – This is when the plot kicks off. Some movies skip immediately to this point. Normally it is when an event takes place that changes the lives of the characters. In the movie interstellar the disequilibrium is when Cooper has to go on a space mission and leave his daughter. New equilibrium – This is when the character/s has resolved the problem and things go back to being either normal or a new version of normal. In the movie Road Trip the new equilibrium is when Josh gets with Beth after leaving his other girlfriends and manages to stay at Ithaca College because he passes his Philosophy exam. Open Narrative – These are narratives that do not ever end and the plot just carries on going and going. Coronation Street and Eastenders are god examples of open narratives because the story keeps going and the plots keep changing. Close Narrative – Closed narratives are stories that do reach a conclusion. Normally these stories have a beginning and end and the closed narrative is at the end when things normally change for good or go back to normal. Ether way something has happened which constitutes an appropriate ending. In the movie Road Trip the closed narrative is from when the road trip begins to when it ends back at Ithaca College. In my book the closed narrative is from when the piper begins in prison and ends up back in prison. My book has a single strand storyline and one of these is where the story has just one plot continuing throughout. These storylines are most appropriate for children because children would struggle to understand any other plots and it would be to complicated. My book is a single strand story. Additionally, these stories usually moonlight on one specific character throughout. In my story it is the Pied Piper. A multi-strand storyline is when the story has more than one plot. For example, the Lord of the Rings follows the story of Frodo and Sam but also follows the story of Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli etc… A Linear narrative is when the story carries on and goes in stages from beginning to end. The majority of movies and stories use this method because it is simple. A non-linear narrative is when the story doesn’t flow and isn’t told in a straight line. This method commonly involves flashbacks or foretells future events then goes back and explains how things got that way. An example of this is Pulp Fiction and Memento. An example of a movie that starts at the end then goes back and explains how things ended up that way is Fight Club. Realistic narratives are stories that are believable and are concerned with real peoples life’s and real events that could happen. A lot of true stories are realistic as well as made up stories such as American History X or Saving Private Ryan. Anti-realistic is the opposite and storylines that do not make sense and are not based on real life or events. These types of stories usually come under the fantasy or si-fi genre. My book is anti-realistic because it is not in anyway believable, for example it features a magic pipe. Binary Opposition is the idea that to make a story means that two opposing sides come together and the conflict between the sides is what creates an interesting
- 3. story. For example, good vs evil (Batman vs The Penguin) humans vs aliens (Aliens vs Preditors), police vs criminals (Beverly Hills Cop) etc… A French theorist named Claude Levi Strauss came up with this idea about movies.