Lights, Camera, Action!

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 Monday 27th September 2021

Learning Objective:

To explore the narrative structure of a film.

  • 1. Tangled           6.
  • 2.                         7. Aladdin
  • 3.                         8. Tarzan
  • 4.                         9.
  • 5. Snow white    10. The Lion King
The maze runner:

Director: Wes Ball

Producer: Ellen Goldsmith- Vein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Lee Stollman

Writer: James Dashner

Cast: Dylan O Brien, Thomas Brodie- Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Patricia Clarkson

Running Time: 113 Minutes

Budget:  34 Million 

Box Office: 348.5 Million

Release Date: September 19 2014

Production Company: Gotham Group, Temple Hill Entertainment, TSG Entertainment 

Distribution Company: 20th Century Fox

Narrative:

Beginning: 

A teenager wakes up inside an underground elevator with no memory of his identity. Some male youths greet him in a large grassy area, called the "Glade," enclosed by tall stone walls. The boys, the "Gladers," have formed a rudimentary society, and each assumes specialized tasks. Their leader, Alby, says that every boy eventually recalls his name but not his past. The boy learns that a vast Maze surrounding them is the only way out. During the day, designated Runners search the Maze for an escape route and return before nightfall when the entrance closes. No one has ever survived a night in the Maze.

Middle:

The first-ever girl arrives in the elevator, with a note saying that she is the last one to enter the Glade. She recognizes Thomas, but he cannot remember her. Thomas, Minho, Frypan, Winston, and Zart enter the Maze, locate the Griever corpse, and remove a beeping mechanical device from inside it. Gally claims that Thomas has jeopardized the fragile peace between the youths and the Grievers, and wants him punished. However, Newt, the group's second-in-command, instead designates Thomas as a Runner. Minho shows Thomas a hand-constructed model of the Maze that is based on previous explorations. The Maze's numbered sections open and close in a regular sequence. Thomas realizes that the device corresponds to a section of the Maze.

End:

Gally has taken command and intends to sacrifice Thomas and Teresa to the Grievers to restore peace. However, several Gladers form a group, free them, and approach the Maze in an attempt to find an escape. Gally and a few others refuse to leave. Fighting Grievers as they go, Jeff and several other Gladers are killed. The Gladers eventually enter a laboratory strewn with corpses. In a video recording, a woman, Ava Paige, explains that the planet has been devastated by a massive solar flare, followed by a pandemic of a deadly virus, the Flare. The teens learn that they were part of an experiment intended to develop a cure. Paige is seen shooting herself in the video as the lab is overtaken by armed men. Gally suddenly arrives with a gun. Having been stung by a Griever, he insists that they must stay in the Maze and aims at Thomas. Minho impales Gally with a spear, but Gally has already fired the gun, with Chuck fatally shot. While Thomas mourns over Chuck, masked armed men then rush in and take the rest of the group to a helicopter. It flies over a vast desert wasteland and approaches a ruined city.

Later, the supposedly dead scientists meet in a room. Paige notes that the experiment has been successful: the survivors are now entering Phase Two.


Setting:

The setting was described in great detail and portrayed amazing and breath- taking way.


Narrative Theory: Todorov



 Equilibrium:

The main character [thomas] is introduced and after he gets introduced 'bad' things start happenng that have never happened before.

Disruption:

The first girl ever gets introduced in the elevator with a note saying ' shes the last one EVER' this causes the team to freak out and get confused. Soon after that alby [the leader] gets stung by a griever and the griever comes out of the maze and kill many people.


Recognition of  Disruption:

Gally [now in-charge since alby died] noticed that all these unfortunate things have been happening since thomas arrived so he does an attempt to kick thomas out by forcing him into the maze.


Attempt to Solve Disruption:

Thomas sticks up for himself and takes a group of people with him to escape the maze.


New Equilibrium:

The group escapes the maze and a rescue team saves them.

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