Movie is always known as the source of entertainment and knowledge as well. It is a way to let people know about life, people, places, culture, norms and general human behavior that we are not aware of. By watching a movie we can relate ourselves with the characters and the stories. I always like to watch movies. But the movie that I was asked to watch recently was never that I would choose to watch. However, it was great to know that a movie that is not fully classical can also turn out to be interesting and makes you go with the flow.
It was “Chungking Express” a movie of 1994. This is a movie with two different love stories which are loosely connected. This was the very first difference that I could notice about the film. Because classical
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The protagonist and antagonist are not absolute. However, I think here, the cops are the protagonists who are the main characters in both the stories. In the first story, the girlfriend is the antagonist because he keeps struggling against her ignorance. The other lady who was the drug dealer could also be the protagonist because of the character she had. In the second story I think the depression and frustration is the antagonist because he keeps on fighting against his feelings that he has for his girlfriend. It is very difficult to find out who the antagonist is because this movie does not consist of much character. The only characters were the protagonists and few supporting characters which did not play a vital role and did not complement any of the other characters. Even the protagonists here were different from other protagonists of Hollywood narrative movies. In every classical Hollywood movie the protagonist is the person who saves the day and makes people surprise by his/her extraordinary qualities. They are strong, powerful and achieve the goal at the end of the day. In Chungking Express all the characters including the …show more content…
It had a loose ending with less information at the end. In fact, the first story had no ending. It seemed like just another day of the cop and then suddenly he bumps to Faye and this is where the second story starts, introducing Faye who is one of the important characters of the second story. Both the stories left a question in the audience’s mind. The second story also creates confusion when they raised the name “May” who was the girlfriend in the first story. The ending was very loose and scattered leaving the audience free to think about the situations and a put conclusion. Different people will give different conclusion to it. The situation that they were in made them frustrated and depression covered them like a black cloud. They used to call random friend to hang out and even talked to the soap about its health. The cause and effect relation of this movie was very connected. As they two cops lost their love, they searched for new love to fight against their depression. And the effect was satisfactory as the got a new love that made their life better than it was
In the realistic fiction novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul is the protagonist or the main character in the story, and his brother Erik is the antagonist or the character who opposes the main character. In many cases, the protagonist is the character the reader is rooting for, and the antagonist is the character that the reader is rooting against. This is why as the reader we are rooting for Paul instead of Erik the antagonist.
Iggy’s stoned and drunken father continuously picked up this furniture off of the street. Not only does Iggy have a bum for a father as one parenting figure, but, his mother has also been AWOL for a month. In this story, there is not one specific antagonist. The real adversary is Iggy’s surrounding environment in the city, along with the parents that adequately support him. The rising action took place in the very beginning of the story when Iggy was expelled from school for walking into a class that is not his.
In the hero 's journey, this comes in the form of a rival. A rival can start out in the form of a helper but slowly develop into an antagonist that may lead the hero to never fulfill their hero status. This character is often unpredictable, and may not understand themselves, causing them to project their anger on
With my research paper, I decided to focus on the villain archetype out of all of them. The villain archetype can be defined as the evil character who exists to cause disorder, confusion, and mayhem on society and to battle against the hero. The one character that I feel and demonstrates the villain archetype would be Spitz from, “The Call of The Wild”. Reasons as to why I believe this is that in the story, Buck and Curly finally arrive to the Klondike Region of Canada and quickly learn that they need to survive with primal instincts against Spitz and his pack. However, Spitz, with no ounce of mercy within him, causes trouble within the pack and lures Curly into a false sense of companionship, only to be killed moments later by him.
The novel Legend by Mari Lu stands out from others. Mari Lu uses a protagonist and antagonist to add a conflict in her novel. Doing this shows that “narratives contain a primary protagonist, who is the focus of the narration. In contrast, antagonists are usually portrayed in a negative fashion, and thus, viewers may feel a sense of counter empathy toward them”(Magliano 1). The antagonist should be at least the equal in strength of the protagonist, and preferably stronger.
The brothers generally target Russian and Italian mobsters who have done harm to society. Motivated by religion, these two brothers use lethal force to serve “good” for society. An antihero makes their own behavior questionable in the eyes of society. A protagonist antihero, generally values some of the same traits as an antagonist. Their morals are typically flawed in regards to societal norms.
In the year 1945 Fritz Lang directed Scarlet Street, a truly classical film noir. The screenplay consists of two criminals who take advantage of a middle-aged painter in order to steal his artwork. Absolutely one of the finest of all film noirs, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street is a remake of Jean Renoir’s La Chienne. These two films share essentially the same structure. “The ineffectual nebbishy cashier and protagonist, Maurice Legrand in La Chienne and Chris Cross in Scarlet Street, demonstrates a level of cowardice and naiveté in grown men that is simply unforgivable, thereby resulting in a fate that must be tragic” (Hassannia Para. 1).
The Story has a man daydreaming in his car, while the movie has a man going on a worldwide quest for a negative photo. This intrigues the audiences with a feel for adventure. The movie also Introduces the love interest of Walter, Cheryl. This adds the extra suspense in the movie. This is because the audience doesn't get to know if they get together.
Released September 29, 1950, Sunset Boulevard is a film noir of a forgotten silent film star, Norma Desmond, that dreams of a comeback and an unsuccessful screenwriter, Joe Gillis, working together. Ultimately an uncomfortable relationship evolves between Norma and Joe that Joe does not want a part of. Sunset Boulevard starts off with an establishing shot from a high angle shot with a narrative leading to a crime scene shot in long shot (a dead body is found floating in a pool). The narrative throughout the film established a formalist film. Cinematography John F. Seitz used lighting and camera angles in such a way to create a loneliness and hopefulness atmosphere.
Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.
B- The antagonists of the book Hit Count by Chris Lynch is Arlo 's mom. She is the Antagonist because she always trying to oppose Arlo´s dream
Many stories in literature are not complete without an Antagonist. The Antagonist can be the embodiment of evil or just a roadblock for the main character to overcome. In the short story Sweat, written by Zora Neale Hurston, features an abusive husband, Sykes, as the Antagonist. Sykes dominates and abuses his hard-working wife, Delia. Whereas, Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Cask of Amontillado, uses an ambiguous relationship between Fortunato, a man full of ego and arrogance, who wrongs protagonist Montresor.
After reading “Bandido” by Luis Valdez the Majority of time antagonist and protagonist are usually black and white as clear as sky. Unfortunately Luis Valdez creates a complex character call Tiburcio Vasquez of his melodrama, he like a Robin Hood who commit crimes but has respect and kindness to those around him, kind of hard not to root for him to get away. Tiburcio state “The women are not to be hard and no one I repeat no one is to be killed” (Valdez 116). In this play, Vasquez is a notorious California bandit ho commit murder which makes him the antagonist. On the other hand, Vasquez Is the main character he has a kindness and flattering aroma around him which also makes him the protagonist.
O Brother Where Art Thou? is a film that will take you on a perilous journey with Ulysses Everett McGill and his simpleminded cohorts. This film may be set amidst the early 1930’s Great Depression era, but it still has a Homer’s Odyssey feel to it. Down in the dusty and highly racial south, Everett recruits a couple of dimwitted convicts, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O’Donnell, to help him retrieve his lost treasure and make it back home before his wife marries another suitor.
I have always viewed movies as mood boosters. Whenever I watch a movie, I judge how good it is according to how well I understand the story. This is why I never truly understand how critics rate movies. However, upon reading John Berger’s “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”, I start to understand how paying attention to the different components of a film helps in understanding the essence of a story. As Berger once said, “There is no film that does not partake of dream.