Groundhog Day

Plan!

• The Occasion• Movie’s Achievement• Story Summer• The Plot• Final Word

Achievements

• Grossing $70.9M in North America • Ranking 13th among films in 1993• Awards• British Comedy Awards 1993 • Saturn Award for Best Actress (Film)• 2000: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs #34• 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10 #8 Fantasy

Trailer

Beginning

• Self-centered TV meteorologist Phil Connors

• new producer Rita • Cameraman Larry • Pittsburgh television station WPBH-TV9• travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to

cover the annual Groundhog Day

Middle

• Phil and his team are forced to stay in town an extra day after the event.

• Phil wakes up to find that he is reliving February 2.

• The day plays out exactly as it did before, with no one else aware of the time loop,

• Only Phil is aware of past events.

Ending

• When Phil explains the situation to Rita, she suggests that he should take advantage of it to improve himself. ( French clip)

• Service to many, and knowing people.• After the evening dance, Rita and Phil

retire together to Phil's room.• Phil wakes up the next morning and

finds the time loop is broken; it is now February 3rd, and Rita is with him.

Plot

• According to Aristotle:

Plot moves forward in accordance of necessity, probability, and inevitability.

plot is a life but with all life’s contradictions purged out of it.

Freytag's pyramid:

Foundations

• Cause & effect • Stable, meaningful laws of probability

determine the action.• Sense of inevitability, of a higher control

of fate, it is felt.

The Plot is self-discovery.

Characters’ Features

• Consistancy: He is funny.• Hamartia: Hedonism; Many argue it is

his love for himself; but one argues that what lead to his self-discovery.

• Peripteaia (reversal): His joy has been spoiled when he got bored!

• Anagnorisis (recognition): Inspiration to self-imporvement.

• Alluding! > Cathersis

Final Word

• A question:

If you lived the same day all your life, every time you wake up you realise it is the same day, what would you do?