Media Studies – Linking Movies with Theorists’ Theory’s
Movie Theorists
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Todorov
– Narrative’s plot lines follow the same path.
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Vladimir
Propp – The classic and generic movie structure.
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Lévi-Strauss
– Theory of binary opposites.
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Roland Barthes
– Anything can happen in a movie.
Movie Watched
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The
Shining, 1980.
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Mission
Impossible: Ghost Protocol, 2009.
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Zombie
Land, 2009.
Movies with Theories
I believe that
Propp’s theory goes well with the
film Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
I believe this theory ties in well with this movie as it has the main
characters needed to prove this theory. For example, in this movie there are
the characters; the villain, the hero/ saviour, and donor aka the sidekick(s).
Also, throughout the movie there is a beginning, middle and end. The characters
shown are the villains who’re fighting against the agents fighting for the
brief case – we also have the characters; the mina agent and the sidekicks
being other agents helping him collect the brief case. As terms of structure,
it follows the structure too. For example, the start starts off as an agent
getting shot – making us as the audience think that the first person shown will
be the main character throughout the movie. The middle consists of a fighting
scene in a building in Dubai when a sandstorm hits too. The final scene is then
shown as the heroes and donors being happy they beat the villains and go out to
a coffee shop to celebrate.
I believe that
Barthes’ theory goes will with the
film Zombie Land. I believe that this
theory ties in well with the movie since it doesn’t have a start, middle or end
– but is consisted with nothing but plain gore; and showing how the citizens of
their town are getting killed by the zombies. Though it does have a start;
we’re introduced to the movie by a voice over of how we can survive the zombie
apocalypse/ outbreak – giving us four steps on living within this hell. We can
also see the narrative way; one personal view point whilst this happens too
(either it’d be a personal viewpoint of a voice over of what is happening, i.e.
the start of the movie).
Finally, I
believe that Todorov’s theory goes
well with the film The Shining. I
believe that this film’s characters and structure link in well with this due to
the structure used in the film. A family enter a new house where the son Danny
sees really horrible and graphic thoughts through his telepathic mind – which
he called ‘The Shining’. When the father is writing up and working on a
project, he slowly goes insane and starts to see things i.e ghosts which aren’t
appearing for no one else. We then find out the only thing that can save the
family is Danny’s power, ‘The Shining’.
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