Disruption: Ava meets two boys (one named Benjamin) who can talk and gets herself caught up in their rebellious, illegal quest to find the scientists who are developing voiceboxes.
New Equilibrium: Ava and the boys reach the scientists and the DNA completes the voicebox. Before the government can stop them, the media have caught hold of the story and the news spreads worldwide. The government has no choice but to pretend that they have been supporting this development all along and are forced to allow voiceboxes to be made available to everyone worldwide. Despite the death of one of the boys during the struggle to escape the government and reach the scientists, the ending is relatively happy as Ava and Benjamin have fallen in love and get to return home. However, the audience are left guessing at the end as we see two government officials discussing how they will invent a disease to kill off Ava and Benjamin and subsequently scare the rest of the world into removing their voiceboxes, leaving the film open for a possible sequel.
Propp's Character Theory
We were able to apply some of Propp's stock characters to our film.
- The villain (struggles against the hero) - The Government
- The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
- The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest) - The other boy who dies on the quest
- The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative) - Actually the boy, Benjamin, as the protagonist is a female
- Her father
- The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)
- The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess - Ava
No comments:
Post a Comment