Narrative
Propp's characters (fairy-tales)
Stock characters
Psychological motivation
Classic hollywood Narrative - Beginning, middle and end (positive resolution)
Cause and effect drives the story
Binary opposition (conflict)
-Look at the context and make connections to the messages and why it has been done this way.
Directors have most control over the messages
-Look at what films they make
-Where they're from
-Want to get their opinions and messages out
Characters and stories all have a narrative function
Seven common character types
Narrative is in every single culture, traits of human nature
La Haine doesn't follow Todorov's BME theory
-Vinz abandons his revenge
-They're all trapped in a cycle - message of the film
-Vinz is Jewish - living in the slums
-Hubert is also trapped in the cycle of violence
-Hubert shoots the police man because of fraternal instinct - Fraternity = France ideology
-Critical and political messages of the film
-The film challenges BME structure to make a clear point (use this as paragraph one)
-Said = his development of character only starts at the end of the film
Said: "so far so good, so far so good" he hasn't been involved yet.
-He's shown as weak and incapable throughout the film
-The whole film is in the space of a day, time throughout the film being shown on screen, clock, circle, cycle
-Petrol bomb on the world in the first scene
-When he closes his eyes the screen goes black - all from his point of view
-Zooming = intensity
-Contradiction of the film: Said caught in the middle at the end of the film
Vinz bad boy = Taxi driver mirror scene
The Satif Massacre = killing civillians
-Hostility in rooftop scene - Algerian vs French
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