Narrative Structure of Two Films

For this blog I had the find key points in two movies.

Movie 1: WALL.E

1 Equilibrium
Everyone has left earth due to pollution and left behind clean up robots to fix the mess.

2 Disturbance
Eve, a robot from a ship who has come to look for life, she meets wall.e and he falls in love with Eve.

3 Protagonist
Wall.e, who is a cleanup robot left to sort out the rubbish problem on earth.

4 Plan
Wall.e Follows eve around the whole time she is on earth.

5 Obstacle
Eve is taken back to space and wall.e holds on to the space ship and follows her.

6 Complications
Eve is thought to be faulty when she reports there being life on earth but does not have the evidence.

7 Timeout
Wall.e releases all the crazy robots, that all have a kooky problem.

8 Crisis
The master commuter won’t let them go home because it received an order never to return to earth.

9 Climax
Wall.e and Eve work together to get the plant to the right place so that the ship will go back to earth.

10 Resolution
The ship goes back to earth and the humans start to live like they once did.


Movie 1: Monsters inc

1 Equilibrium
The Monsters work in a scare factory that scares kids to generate power but they have to work extra powerfull as the children are becoming resistant the scare.

2 Disturbance
A child from earth gets back to the scare factory and everyone is worried as they are thought to be deadly.

3 Protagonist
Mike and Sully are the two main characters in the movie.

4 Plan
Mike and Sully plan to return the Child back to its room.

5 Obstacle
They cannot get to the door without any one finding out what has happened.

6 Complications
A fellow scaring monster wants the keep the child to drain all the scare out of it.

7 Timeout
Sully starts to like the child and starts playing hide and seeks with it.

8 Crisis
The boss of the company is behind all the release of the child and won’t let it go home and banishes Mike and Sully.

9 Climax
Mike and Sully work really hard to get the child home and they get a recorded confession of the boss to get him arrested.

10 Resolution
The monsters start to use laughter to get energy as it is ten times more powerful than screams.