The film Gorillas in the Mist, the main archetype is Tragedy. Around the 1960s, Dian Fossey, the main character, becomes the developer of this archetypes. The world of Romance is replaced by the world of Tragedy where goodness is defeated. In this film, tragedy will present the hardships of age, knowledge and braveness. The hero of this typical tragedy archetype becomes lost and their defeat may bring a success to their cause. In the film, the Director Michael Apted, demonstrates this archetype in various ways with symbols, appeals, characters and situations.
The Director Michael Apted demonstrates tragedy through many symbols throughout the film. For example, when Dian accepts the “call for adventure”, travels to Africa and starts to climb the mountain slowly, the Director uses the mountain as a symbol. The mountain symbolized the
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development of power, where she gets a wider view of the world where she moves upward on a spiritual and emotional journey. Then he uses rain, the first days that she stays there, it rains at night, meaning that she somehow will help give life to the gorillas and prevent them from going extinct. Next is mist, like in the title of the film, it shows mystery, the mystery of the things that happened on the jungle and to Dian’s death. At last, the jungle and the color green. The jungle acknowledges the evil, the hunters, when they kill of many gorillas just for money. Above all, the color green foreshadows renewal and growth, after Dian’s death, the gorillas were acknowledged and a new hope of growth and renewal that the species would not become extinct grew. Likewise, appeals were most importantly used to demonstrate tragedy. With appeals, people can understand better the tragedy of this film. For example, at the start of the movie, Dian and her team get thrown out of the congo and she loses all her research. This give viewers a sense of anger and lets them see of determined Dian is after she tries to get back to working on her research. Secondly, the moment when Dian first makes contact with the gorillas and with the silverback makes her seem like a hero because no one had gotten that close to any of the gorillas before. Equally important, she becomes the most heroic when she goes and rescues the baby gorilla after most of the other gorillas were cut to pieces by the hunters. On the other hand, she seems to come to her lowest point when she seems to have become demented after Digit is killed. Hence, all this shows how determined and passionate she is for this gorillas. Other concepts that helps demonstrate tragedy in the film are characters and situation.
The main character, Dian Fossey, she starts off as innocent, inexperienced. She embarks on this journey with no knowledge about the gorillas. Even though she has knows that she has not many experience for this task, she shows determination and passion. She shows affection for this gorillas as the time continues. She died with her determination of not letting the species die. Second, Dr. Leakey is the mentor and free spirit. He helps Dian embark on her journey but is carefree enough to live her alone in an unknown place. Next is Sembagare, the loyal sidekick and best friend. He is always on her side and is almost always beside her on the film. When Dian starts to lose her mind, he helps her get back up. After Dian dies, he arranges for her to be buried besides Digit in the jungle and makes the circle of stones around the two graves. At last, Bob Campbell is the lover. He becomes her lover and is willing to divorce his wife just to live with Dian. He then wants to take Dian with him but Dian has to sacrifice her love for him in order to
stay. All in all, the Director Michael Apted achieves to demonstrate the archetype of tragedy in this film through symbols, appeals, characters and situations. The director has a fully good uses of archetypes throughout the film. He made a well use of symbols with the surrounding of the mountain and the jungle. With the appeals, he introduces situations, sadness when the gorillas were killed or nostalgia when Dian died and was buried besides Digit. And at last, characters along with situations, the characters and the situations create the road for Dian to progress and grow as the story goes on, leading her to her tragedy. In the end, all this give a well directed demonstrations of the tragedy in the film Gorillas in the Mist.
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