GENERAL CONVENTIONS 8: Other points

RESEARCH(SAM'S):

MY INFLUENCES:

• I like the idea to have a villain and hero in our film opening
• after studying the archetype I feel like it could make our film opening easier to understand
• more interesting/exciting

SUMMARY:
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RESEARCH(MINE):
Propp's 7 Recurring Character Types:

Vladimir Propp argued that there are essentially just seven basic character types or archetypes:

1. The villain - struggles against the hero. 
2. The donor - prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
3. The helper - helps the hero in the quest.
4. The princess or prize and her father - the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain.
5. The dispatcher - character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
6. The hero - reacts to the donor, weds the princess
7. False Hero - takes credit for the hero's actions or tries to marry the princess.

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I took Star Wars to apply these archetypes.

1. The Hero is Luke Skywalker, he defeats the evil Darth Vader
2. The Villain is Darth Vader who looks to rein terror across the galaxy and defeat Luke Skywalker 
3. The Donor is Obi-Wan Kenobi presents Luke with a Lightsaber.
4. The Dispatcher is R2D2 who has a message from Princess Leia to Luke.
5. The Princess is Leia who needs saving from the Empire.
6. The Helper is Han Solo and Chewie who accompanies Luke on missions.
7. The Father is Darth Vader who isn't revealed to be the father till later on.

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RESEARCH(MINE):
Things I want to avoid doing

• Revealing the protagonist immediately
• in For Those in Peril the opening shot is a close-up of the protagonist's face
• creates no narrative enigma
• Have clumsy dialogue that serves only for blatant exposition 
• in the 2002 Spiderman with Tobey Maguire he gets on the bus and a classmate says "you're so lame Parker'
• Having dialogue that just seems to be there to fill silence
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in a romantic scene the protagonist says "I don't like sand" 
• It's not romantic, it doesn't really have anything to do with the plot and you can see the light fading behind the actor's eyes as he has to say it
  
• Have nothing happen
• The opening of Submarine effectively sets the tone for the film, but we only see one character, and there is no binary opposition created, no real narrative enigma as we ate immediately introduced to the protagonist and get a sense of his character, an equilibrium is established but there is no disruption