movie analysis chraracters

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LM – 1471

Movie Analysis


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Characters


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Individuals

in astory


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There are different ways of

looking at a character in astory.


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Characterization

The process

by which an

author

reveals the

personality

of a

character.


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Direct characterizationtells us what the character is

like (humble, ambitious, easily

manipulated).


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Indirect characterization requires readers to exercise their

own judgement, to put cluestogether.


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Indirect Characterization


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● Static(don’t change much)

● Dynamic (change in some important ways)

● Flat (1 or 2 personality traits)

● Round (complex, more dimensional

personalities)


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Plot Line

Exposition: The start of the story.The way things are before the actionstarts.

Complication/Rising Action: develops andintensifies theconflict; the series ofconflicts and crisis inthe story that lead tothe climax.

Crisis/Climax: The turning point. Themost intense moment (either mentally orin action).

Falling Action: the tensionsubsides and the plot movestowards its conclusion.

Resolution/Dénoument: Theconclusion, some newequilibrium is established.


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Conflict


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The journey


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An example: Homer's Odyssey (the story of the

return of Odysseus from the Trojan War; it tookten years.)

● The journey is not so much a physical one as apersonal one (all the adventures that Odysseus

undertakes are stages in his personal progress.)● The reader is constantly reminded that he is

coming home and we are invited to judge hisconduct as he deals with various temptations

along the way.● The physical journey is therefore a means for his

moral and developmental journey.

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The man who eventually reaches the end of the journey is not the same man who started it.


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THE HERO

The hero's

journey is both an

actual event and a

metaphor for the

emotional or

psychologicaldevelopment of

the hero

character. Thus,

the journey is

what causes thehero to change.

Joseph Campbell


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The Hero


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Other

importantterms . . .


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• Foreshadowing: early clues about what willhappen later in a piece of fiction.

• Flashbacks: an earlier event is inserted intothe normal chronological order of a narrative

• Irony: a difference between what is expectedand reality.

• Style: a writer’s individual and distinct way of writing. The total of the qualities thatdistinguish one author’s writing from another’s.

• Setting: time, place and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.

• Symbols: something that stands/suggests

something else.


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● Analyze each of the characters in the movie“Personal Velocity” by describing each of thefollowing aspects:● Physical description● Names● Attitudes● Dialogues● Thoughts/feelings● Actions/reactions of others

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