2. Film Plot
• A villain commits a murder and the victim (JC) gets the blame for it
and gets put to death in an electric chair. JC returns as a ghost and
tries to get revenge on the real murderer. JC meets an old woman
(MP) who can talk to ghosts. She tells him a riddle that he has to
work out in order to find the culprit. While trying to solve the riddle
JC sees a lady being attacked by the murderer. He tries to help her
but she runs away and he realises that the criminal can also talk to
ghosts. Jim solves the riddle that the old lady was the true criminal.
Jim goes back to the old woman and the old woman tells him that
she is the real murderer but it was her son who committed the
crime. As she says this her son runs in and kills his mother as it was
her fault that the police were after him after he kills his mother he
then gets arrested for committing two crimes, once everything dies
down JC realises that he no longer has any unfinished business and
a white light appears before him and takes him up to heaven.
3. Todorov’s theory
• Todorov theory consists of an
equilibrium, disequilibrium, understanding of
disequilibrium, fixing the
disequilibrium, equilibrium.
• In this story Todorov’s theory would fit in as at
the beginning everything is normal, then the
disequilibrium is where JC gets murdered, the
equilibrium is when JC finds his murderer, the
disequilibrium is where his killer is not behind it
and the last equilibrium is where the true villain
dies and JC goes up to heaven.
4. Propp’s Theory
• Propp's theory is that in all films there are usually 8
identifiable characters, hero, false
hero, villain, dispatcher, princess, helper, father and donor
and 31 different turning points, although he does also state
that not all characters and turning points are needed in a
film. Here are some of our characters.
• Hero-Jim Carrey
• False Hero-Michelle phiffer (old lady)
• Dispatcher-Old lady
• Villain-Old lady
• Helper-Old lady
5. Characteristics of a Blockbuster
• It’s a star film
• Large production budget
• Large marketing budget
• Range of merchandise
• Wide demographic
• Holiday release date
• Worldwide release
