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Assignment 8: to Identify and explain Todorovs theory in relation to film.

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Todorov suggested there are 5 stages of narrative

The first stage is the equilibrium.

The movie I have choose is the hunger games. In the hunger games it starts off normal as there who is just hunting leading her every day life catching food.

There is no conflict at the beginning everything is pretty much normal.

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The second stage would be the disequilibrium

• Some sort of conflict/disruption would begin in relation to the hunger games the conflict begins when the event of the reaping began.

• Catness (the main character) sister got chosen to do enter the hunger games.

In this scene Prim discovers that Catness will be entering the hunger games

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The recognition of disequilibrium

Catness decided to go and do it herself which caused conflict, because Catness did not want her little sister to die.

The fight to stay alive in the hunger games, as people were killing other people.

Another one would be when Rue died which caused moral panic (a division in society) in & out of the hunger games.

Rue is in the tree.

Catness is hunting

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The attempt to repair the disequilibrium

• Catness tried to fight for her life in order to win the hunger games and the return to her family.

• Catness get Peter medicine for his cuts and bruises in order to make him better for them to win.

• Catness gives peter poisonous berries in order to kill the both of them.

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The new equilibrium

• The new equilibrium would be when a resolution is made and all the conflict has ended.

• In relation to the hunger games it would have been when Catness Won with Peter.

• Catness got to go and return home to her family in one piece.

Catness won the hunger games

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Levi – Strauss

The genre is drama

Film Opposite 1 Opposite 2 • Explanation

Crash • He is an opposite from a good person because he was sexually harassing a women.

• He is good because he doesn’t do anything wrong he just works and does his best to support his family

This is the cop from crash

He is good because he is just a father and owns a shop.

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Film Opposite 1 Opposite 2 Explanation

The unborn • The little boy is evil and kills his sisters loved ones.

• The girl is good and wants to get help.

The character is evil as he is looking for revenge.

She is the good person that is tormented and abused

The genre is horror

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Film Opposites 1 Opposites 2 explantion

Rush hour

The genre is action

This character is the villain as she causes pain.

Jackie is the hero as he is good guy.

• Jackie is the hero as he saves lives.

• She is the villain as she causes pain and death.

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Part B

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Barthes Theory:

Engima code

Action Code

Semantic code

Symbolic code

Cultural Code

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Enigma code

• Enigma code is the puzzles/ mystery of the movie.

• In the movie there is always ‘5ws’.

Who is responsibleWhy are they thereWhere ?When ?What ?

For example saw the movie

The character is tied up in a chair, with a head brace on her she looks terrified.

The audience is intrigued as to why the girl sitting on the chair.

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Action code

An action code is codes of behaviour and actions that lead the audience to expect certain consequences (based on other stories/films and their conventions)

For example the movie Juice

A guy has a gun so the consequence would be he's going to shoot someone with it

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Semantic Code

The semantic code is the meanings of characters,

objects, locations.We learn from experience about these denotations

& connotations.Iconographic features work in the same way.

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Some examples of the semantic code The colour white

Bridal wars.

The colour white = innocence & purity/ venerability.

Twilight breaking dawn.

27 Dresses.

(Romance, drama)

(Romance/drama)(Drama, fantasy, adventure & romance.)

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Symbolic code

The symbolic features consist to signify oppositions and antitheses

For example spider man we have the hero and the villain two complete opposites.

The villain The hero, it is evident there will be a battle between good & evil

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Cultural code:Outside of text and knowledge we commonly share to bring understand of the meaning in the text. Often references to things in popular culture and historical events.