A movie isn’t a movie without characters. Characters are used to tell us the story and get messages across to the audience, but how are characters constructed? In lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events, violet is constructed to be an emotionally strong inventor, Klaus is constructed to be a bookish intelligent teenager with intelligence well beyond his age, sunny is constructed to be a baby who loves to bite things whose name shows her intelligence and count Olaf is constructed to be a self-centred, evil man that is a very bad actor. Each of these characters are constructed using a mixture of symbolism, written, audio and technical codes.
Violet is the eldest of the three Baudelaire children. She is the child who must put her feelings to one side and be there for her younger two siblings. Her name itself symbolises her personality. Violet is a colour that is full of life, and the flower is a beautiful one (symbolic code). Violet is perceived to be an inventor, as the narrator announces at the start of the film that whenever her hair is tied back, she is bound to be inventing something (audio code). People express their feelings in different ways. Instead of crying about the death of her parents, she creates a sanctuary, a shelter from danger, fear and hardship (technical and symbolic code). In doing this, she shows that she is emotionally strong, and is taking the role of the carer for her two younger siblings.
Klaus is the middle child, a hard position in the family because he would be torn between taking the role as leader and stepping down and letting violet watch out for him. Klaus remembers everything he reads in books (audio code), and he reads a lot, so this makes him very smart. Whenever he comes face to face wi...
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...es to force violet to marry him (audio, technical and written codes). This is a desperate action taken by an incredibly selfish man with no conscience or feelings of guilt. We know he is a very bad actor, as when he is performing in front of his friends; they fall asleep watching him, showing us just how boring he really is (audio and technical). These examples show just how selfish Count Olaf really is, and how far he is willing to go to get his hands on some more money.
The film Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events uses symbolic, audio, written and technical codes to construct the character of violet to be a smart inventor, Klaus to be a book loving teenager, Sunny to be a baby who loves to bite things and Count Olaf to be a selfish, evil, greedy uncle who only wanted to be the carer of the children to get his hands on that enormous fortune they have.
How do fiction storytellers reveal a character’s actions and or characteristics? Fiction storytellers use things like conflicts, diction, and imagery to add a better description to a book. Most of these examples also hook the reader to want to learn more. The mood of a story is also revealed when using this examples. In The Looking Glass Wars Beddor uses conflicts and challenges to inform the reader about Alyss’ characteristics.
She is fairly new to the work world and has lied on her resume’ to get hired, and realizes that the job is harder than she first thought. All hope is not lost because Violet assures her that she can be trained. She ends up succeeding at the company and telling her husband she will not take him back after he comes back begging for her love again.
Violet is a very cute, feminine name which fits the character’s role as the femme in the lesbian relationship. One could accentuate the fact that whenever Violet is away from Caesar, she appears to be less feminine. Also, whenever Violet is talking to men, her voice becomes high-pitched which seemingly makes her vulnerable ensuring her to be taken care of. This can be seen in many scenes from the film especially the scene where Caesar opens the briefcase and finds nothing in it except a stack of newspapers. Caesar asks “Where could the money be?” Violet replies with her...
Violet has a deeper understanding of the society she lives in, and she also begins to question the corporations who run that society. When Violet was at the doctor’s she starts to, “think about things” (Anderson 80). At this particular scene, Violet sounds paranoid as she explains her thoughts, “Everything we do gets thrown into a big calculation. Like they’re watching us right now. They can tell where you are looking. They want to know what you want.” (Anderson 80). Violet is now understanding why they are programmed the way they are. She then makes a huge simile for it, “It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it ...
Authors present their characters either directly or indirectly. In all good fiction all characters are dramatized. There are flat characters, they can be summarized pretty quickly. There are special types of flat characters one of which is called a stock character; characters we recognize right away (a sheriff or detective) On the other hand are round characters, which have qualities of real people and are many-sided. The static character is the same person from beginning to end, and finally there is the developing character which undergoes some kind of change, this character usually undergoes an epiphany. “Ultimately it is the quality of the characterization by which a literary story stands or falls”. [page 173]
Huck Finn learns from the actions of people around him, what kind of a person he is going to be. He is both part of the society and an outlier of society, and as such he is given the opportunity to make his own decisions about what is right and what is wrong. There are two main groups of characters that help Huck on his journey to moral maturation. The first group consists of Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and the judge. They portray society and strict adherence to rules laid out by authority. The second group consists of Pap, the King, and the Duke. They represent outliers of society who have chosen to alienate themselves from civilized life and follow no rules. While these characters all extremely important in Huck’s moral development, perhaps the most significant character is Jim, who is both a fatherly figure to Huck as well as his parallel as far as limited power and desire to escape. Even though by the end of the novel, Huck still does not want to be a part of society, he has made a many choices for himself concerning morality. Because Huck is allowed to live a civilized life with the Widow Douglas, he is not alienated like his father, who effectively hates civilization because he cannot be a part of it. He is not treated like a total outsider and does not feel ignorant or left behind. On the other hand, because he does not start out being a true member of the society, he is able to think for himself and dismiss the rules authority figures say are correct. By the end of the novel, Huck is no longer a slave to the rules of authority, nor is he an ignorant outsider who looks out only for himself. This shows Huck’s moral and psychological development, rendering the description of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as a picaresq...
Authors develop characters’ personalities in order to add depth to their story and allow readers to feel more connected to the characters. Beyond this, characterization also allows authors to develop the themes of their stories in a more clear manner. A prime example of this would be in the poem Judith, where the author contrasts Judith and Holofernes’ personalities in order to develop the major themes of heroism and having faith in God.
It is important to relate literature to one another so we can create the mind set of characters, add uniqueness to the entire film to make it unconventional to other literature, and create a further meaning of life based on imagery and symbolism that can be created to give a further understanding to literature, but also reality as well and the paths taken to find the correct identity to create happiness and
Many stories and novels are created into films, but it is not easy. Stories often rely heavily on the narrator, but films don’t typically have one. While film gives you direct visuals, books give you the opportunity to make up your own; a film takes away your own visual interpretation. Also, film has certain limits, such as time, interaction with the imagination, and the need to collaborate with certain people. It is common for a book to film adaptation to have the downside of not having all of the details from the story, but it isn't the filmmaker's job to adapt the story word for word, they use their own vision. Sometimes, it is necessary for some things to be changed, maybe to “highlight new themes, emphasize
The first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning is written by Lemony Snicket. The book starts out when the Baudelaire children are on Briny Beach where the receive terrible news about their parents death. They had to live with the Mr. Poe and his family, people they knew, until Mr. Poe found the relative they were supposed to live with when both of their parents died. The relative they stayed with had the name of Count Olaf. While living at Count Olaf’s house the children met Justice Strauss a neighbor of their new guardian. In her house there was a gigantic library that the kids enjoyed very much. While living with Count Olaf they discovered he wanted their fortune that couldn’t be used until the oldest child was of age.
An excellent film will build up it’s characters, this usually means a preconceived notion of the characters may be hard to overcome. (Choose original actors/actresses)
The perfect leader is hard to find because it is very hard to try to satisfy everyone all at once. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, different needs and opinions cause several boys that are stranded on an island to have troubles with the leaders. No leader can fulfill the needs of all people. For example, Ralph, Jack, and the rest of the boys all have different ideas, needs, and traits that make them unable to do so in the book.
A set of practices concerning the narrative structure compose the classical Hollywood Paradigm. These conventions create a plot centering around a character who undergoes a journey in an attempt to achieve some type of goal (). By giving the central character more time on screen, the film helps the audience to not only understand the character’s motivation but also empathize with his/her emotional state. Additionally, some antagonistic force creates conflict with the main character, preventing immediate success(). Finally, after confronting the antagonist, the main character achieves his or her goal along with growing emotionally(). This proven structure creates a linear and relatively easily followed series of events encompassing the leading character and a goal.
...verything around us is made by our actions. Positive or negative they cause an effect that will ultimately lead to a different story base on how we interpret life. Narrative elements are used as a bridge by the directors in their film to create any master plot that is currently known. Any modification at any narrative element used by the director at important moments inside the story can help you portray a different master plot. This used of narrative elements can be best described as an ever changing process that takes place inside an individual’s head. Depending on the individual that may be exposed to those narrative elements can create different meanings. This new interpretation can be different for everyone. We have to be aware that one change in the surface scenery can lead to many ideal outcomes in our minds and that is the main power the audience has.
At one point of our lives we all thought our parents were annoying or didn't understand us, we may even still that way. We all heard that god-forbid phrase, "When I was your age.", but we all forgot our parents were once like us. We all think that they are just blabbing nonsense, but most of the time it is true. In the two short stories, "Rules of the Game" and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown", the two main characters face conflicts with their parents. In the end they learn valuable lessons.