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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Narrative Theories

this is the most common and simple layout for a narrative theory. Starting from the Beginning/Exposition, then the protagonist is met with some sort of Complication, which then move on to a Climax/Crisis, which is finalised by the main character Resolving the problem.

this is the layout to the Will Smith film; I, Robot.

Beginning/Exposition: The 3 Laws of Robotics come onto scene with a watery/bubbling dark background. suddenly a young girl in seen screaming from inside a car which has been plunged into a lake. then somebody is seen climbing across the debris of metal and car carcass' and smashes the window of the car of Del Spooner's Car (Will Smith) leaving the young girl to disappear into the dark waters. the scene changes to see Spooner wake up in bed sweating from the horrible nightmare he just had of his past.
 
Complication: Del Spooner is led on a case (as he is a Detective of the CPD in the year 2035) of the death of a character in the film (Dr. Alfred Lanning) which Spooner has some sort of Friendship with but this unknown until later in the story. Upon investigating the strange and unexplainable death of Lanning,  Del finds a Robot hiding in the crime scene. Sonny , appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Spooner now needs to work out the riddles that Lanning has left him in his Hologram and to also figure out how Sonny managed to violate the Laws of robotics even though the laws are hardwired into every existing robot created by USR. Sonny tells Spooner that her has dreams, which is theoretically impossible as dreams cannot exist within the programmed mind of the artifical beings. He draws a picture to show the repeating image in his head and explains it to the Detective what is shown. it shows a picture of a bridge which was one Michigan Lake, with thousands of robots gathered round with the silohette of a Jesus-type figure stood on the hill while they all look up to him. Sonny tells Del that he's sure that Spooner is the man on the hill; which shocks Spooner as he has a raw hatred for robots since the crash at the beginning.
Climax/Crisis: all of a sudden every single one of the new NS-5 robots created by USR (Except Sonny) start to overtake the city of Chicago with red lights beaming from their translucent torso's. They are also programed with a secondary plan, to eliminate Detective Spooner; as he knows to much and has almost figured out who the main culpret is. 

1 comment:

  1. This is really detailed research and you have also applied the narrative theories to a film you know well in order to demonstrate sound understanding. Has this helped you come up with ideas for your own narrative?

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