THE SIXTH SENSE
SHUTTER ISLAND
The villain - Vincent Gray
The donor - Cole Sear
The helper - Cole Sear
The princess - n/a
The father - n/a
The hero - Dr. Malcolm Crowe
The false hero - n/a
Edward "Teddy" Daniels and Chuck Aule, travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor, as part of an investigation into the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando - STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM
A storm prevents their return to the mainland for several days. - DISRUPTION OF EQUILIBRIUM
Dr. John Cawley, refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; Solando's doctor, Dr. Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance, and they are barred from searching Ward C and told that the lighthouse on the island has already been searched, so there is no need to search it - RECOGNITION OF DISRUPTION
As Daniels and Aule continue their investigation, they find that Solando has been found by the staff with no explanation. With neither the staff or patients helping, Daniels decides to break into Ward C, and eventually meets George Noyce, another patient, in a solitary confinement. - ATTEMPT TO REPAIR
According to Dr. Cawley, the events of the past several days have been designed to break Laeddis' conspiracy-laden insanity by allowing him to play out the role of Daniels. The hospital staff, including Dr. Sheehan posing as Aule and a nurse posing as Rachel Solando, were part of the test, and the migraines that Laeddis suffered were withdrawal symptoms from his medication, as well as hallucinating the "real Rachel Solando". - REINSTATEMENT OF EQUILIBRIUM
Tzvetan Todorov
Todorov suggested that conventional narratives are structured in five stages.
Roland
According to Roland Barthes all narratives share structural features that each narrative weaves together in different ways.
Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Propp studied hundreds of folktales and found they contained 8 character types and 31 functions that move the story along
CODES THEORY
Key Figures
Levi-Strauss
Hermeneutic Code - The way the story avoids telling the truth or revealing all the facts, in order to drop clues in through out to help create mystery
Enigma/Proairectic Code - The way tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what happens next
Semantic Code - The semantic code points to any element in a text that suggest a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation which the story suggests
Symbolic Code - Wider level of Semantic Code
Cultural Code - Looks at the audience wider cultural knowledge, morality and ideology
Levi-Strauss suggested that binary oppositions are key to the meaning making in narrative - he argued the constant creation of conflict and opposition propels narrative, and that narrative can only end on a resolution of conflict.
The people who changed the way film works today
- Levi-Strauss
- Todorov
- Propp
-Barthes Roland
LAZARUS PROJECT
The Lazarus Project uses Levi-Strauss's theory when it comes to the re-en carnation of Ben Garvey. The binary opposite of this is Good Vs Evil, but in this case it's Evil Vs Good. This is due to him trying to turn his life around from a past where he was on death-row. He tries to create a better life for himself by working in a psychiatric hospital
NARRATIVE THEORY