Narrative Theory

Film Plot

Tim O Sullivan et al. (1998)
'All media text tells us some type of story'.
Through careful mediation, media texts offer a way telling stories about ourselves (as a culture)-These are ideologies

Ideologies in X-Men Appocalypse.

Throughout the movie men are presented stronger.Not just physically but mentally.Having people close to you makes you much stronger.

Pam Cook (1985)
The standard Hollywood narrative structure should have:
"Linearity of cause and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma reslotion".
A high degree of narrative closure.
A fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spatial and temporal coherence.


How does X-Men present an enigma that is resolved?
This film portrays a problem that is solved by portraying all the 'good' characters to work together as a team to defeat the 'bad' characters.magnito gathers all mutants to defeat appocalypse.

Tzvetan Todorov (1997)
Stage 1 - A point of stable equilibrium
Stage 2- This is stability is distrupted by some kind of force, which creates a state of disequilibrium.
Stage 3- Action directed against the disruption
Stage 4- Restoration of a state of new equilibrium.

The beginig of the film shows a stable setting

X- Men based on flash backs and flash forwards to portay negative scenes that have alrady occured



Claude Levi-Strauss (1958)
Binary Opposites e.g. Good Vs Evil.

Costumes Appocalypse wears a dark mask costumes while the others wearing lighter colours.

All narrative feature stock characters and that audiences understood stories because of such feature.

• Vilian/Antagonist
• Hero/Protagonist
• Helper/Supporter
• Princess (The prize for the hero- not necessarily a person)
• One that is rescued/saved/helped

What character types are present in your film?

There are many types of charcters presented in this film such as

Appocalypse vs Professor X

4 HorseMen vs Mutants

Rolland bartthes 1977

Narrative Codes:

Enigma Codes work to keep up setting problems or puzzles for the audience.

Action Codes work to infor the audience in terms of what is happening next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciP_u9Wi1hU 

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Beginging of film music