In many films, the antagonists are usually ignored and are perceived to the audiences as just the bad guys. However, for this research paper, it will go in dept of antagonist background stories of what makes these characters good and evil, focusing on animation film Arrietty, Ponyo, princess mononoke and Spirited away, directed by Miyazaki to answer the question of what makes the audience perceive these characters as bad or good antagonist. Antagonist of the film Arrietty is named Haru, who is a maid working for Sadoko Maki’s house. In this film ,Haru was perceived as a bad person because she was trying to get rid of borrowers who are tiny people living in small house inside the Sadoko Maki’s house. Looking at the story from the protagonist …show more content…
Yubaba is a character who does evil things like turning human into an animal, steal names and memories of others, and much more. Her characteristics are villainous,greedy, selfish, and only take in actions for her personal gain. In this film, Yubaba is illustrated as an evil witch with her unique physical appearance that emphasizes her wickedness. From the start, when Yubaba was introduced in the scene, in no doubt the audience would see her as kind supporting character as she talks to others in away that they are below her. During the film, there was a part where Yubaba takes away the main character Chihiro’s name, where she said “ So, your name 's Chihiro? What a pretty name and it belongs to me now!”, this line really brings out her selfish,bossy side of her character. Within her selfishness, she had villainous reason for stealing her coworker 's birth names, as she“ gives them new names effectively exercising an ownership-like power over them ”. The way she treats people shows the real antagonist side bringing conflict to the story with the protagonist Chihiro. However,comparing the film to the reality, as a person owning a business, she uses “overbearing and condescending supervisory method” which makes the audience portray her as evil, but ironically, looking at the real world, a lot of big money earning industry leaders uses …show more content…
During the film, No face have shown his personality as he eats bathhouse workers to gain their personality and physical features. Just like in reality, where people follow the path of our social norm, as all workers scramble for the gold, No face sees this and realizes how he can lure people in and realized the way to bring Chihiro in since that is how everyone seemed to be doing. Looking at No face perspective, he is only following others action unknowing the circumstances, But because Chirio did not accept his gold or tokens, his greed from eating greedy workers almost led to eating Chihiro to gain her personality and physical features as he admires her. In the end, he threw up all the workers he swallowed and came back to how he was before. Beginning of the film he was portrayed as evil and sick, but with Chihiro’s companion, he turned into a nice character who was just lonely revealing nicer sider to his
In society today, we are conditioned to believe certain sets of ideals. We use these ideals to interact and get along with the other people we surround ourselves with. These ideals are often the societal norms that form common ground amongst individuals. However, living life based off these basic and unchanging beliefs is not beneficial to humanity, nor does it make life any easier to live. In fact, holding on to the most accepted beliefs holds back society as a whole. Judith Halberstam, in her essay “Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation” challenges these societal norms through the analysis of animated movies and, in doing so, carves a path for a new way of thinking.
Run Lola Run, is a German film about a twenty-something woman (Lola) who has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her love (Manni) will be killed. The search for the money is played through once with a fatal ending and one would think the movie was over but then it is shown again as if it had happened ten seconds later and changed everything. It is then played out one last time. After the first and second sequence, there is a red hued, narrative bridge. There are several purposes of those bridges that affect the movie as a whole. The film Run Lola Run can be analyzed by using the four elements of mise-en scene. Mise-en-scene refers to the aspects of film that overlap with the art of the theater. Mise-en-scene pertains to setting, lighting, costume, and acting style. For the purpose of this paper, I plan on comparing the setting, costume, lighting, and acting style in the first red hued, bridge to that of the robbery scene. Through this analysis, I plan to prove that the purpose of the narrative bridge in the film was not only to provide a segue from the first sequence to the second, but also to show a different side of personality within the main characters.
Princess Mononoke is an animated Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki and the most popular film in Japan. Throughout the film Miyazaki introduces several reasons on who the protagonist and antagonist and why. First he shows his protagonist as a young kid, his name is Prince Ashitaka, and he’s shown to have courage and the ability to do well instead of being evil. On the other hand Miyazaki confuses his audience on the antagonist which is Lady Eboshi, because when Ashitaka first meets Eboshi she tells him how she started her beloved Iron Town, but then he learns she’s out to destroy the forest and anyone who gets in her way. According to Miyazaki he will show us why Ashitaka is the protagonist and why Lady Eboshi is the antagonist.
The anti-heroes of the Tarantino films are usually the main characters; they're depicted by the ruthlessness and lack of sensitivity in their persona. Examples of these types of characters in the movies of Quentin Tarantino is the protagonist group from the film
develop an overall theme of good and evil in the story and to create a
In most works of literature there is an “evil” character that has conflicting interests with the protagonist. This issue may arise in multiple forms including, but not limited to, abuse and manipulation. In this paper we will be discussing the similarities and differences between Shakespeare’s character Iago from Othello and J.K. Rowling’s character Voldemort from the Harry Potter series.
Relations between sympathy-empathy expressiveness and fiction have become a significant issue in the debate on the emotional responses to the film fiction. Due to their complexity many scholars found it useful to diagram them. With his essay, “Empathy and (Film) Fiction”, Alex Neill tries to develop new theory for analyzing the fiction and, especially, the emotional responses from the audience on it. The project of this essay is represented with an aim to show the audience the significant value of the emotional responses to the film fiction. From my point of view in the thesis of his project he asks a simple question: “Why does the (film) fiction evoke any emotions in the audience?”, further building the project in a very plain and clever way. Tracing the origins of this issue, he distinguishes between two types of emotional responses, sympathy and empathy, as separate concepts in order to understand the influence of both types of emotional responses to fiction. However, relying mostly on this unsupported discrepancy between two concepts and the influence of the “identification” concept, Neill finds himself unable to trace sympathy as a valuable response to fiction. This difficulty makes Neill argue throughout the better part of the text that empathy is the key emotional factor in the reaction to (film) fiction and that it is a more valuable type of emotional response for the audience.
Wicked, dishonorable, corrupt, villainous, malicious, and vicious all have one thing in common: they define evil. A person or a group of people that display these qualities are often defined as evil beings or creatures. Two people that have many of these characteristics developed within them are Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello and Lucifer from the Bible. Both Iago and Lucifer are developed with many “evil” qualities woven intricately into their character development. The representation of each “evil” characteristic gives them something they have in common, allowing the description and portrayal of both Iago and Lucifer in literature show the audience they share common “evil” characteristics and that they lead to chaos and downfall.
In the novel the Chi is a powerful spirit that determines a man's lot in life. One such instance is when Okonkwo was disbanded from his home for a Feminine murder; Clearly his personal god or Chi was not made for great things. A man could not rise above the destiny of his Chi.
English poet John Milton once wrote, “…good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil.” With this interwoven information, modern audiences are usually able to differentiate the “good guys” from the “bad guys” in a movie or television show. A murderous meth kingpin, a rebellious teenage rapist, and a Los Angeles hit man who quotes Holy Scripture before killing his targets — not your typical group of likeable personalities. However, these individuals (Walter White, Alex DeLarge, and Jules Winnfield) are among film and television’s most beloved characters. Often, society shuns people who fall under these deviant categories. Why then do audiences support, sympathize with, and even root for these “bad” characters? Many factors come into play when audiences decide whom they like and why they like them. Through easily identifiable characters, viewers relate to and support the “bad guys” and find ways to justify their deviant behavior; this pattern can be seen in the soci...
The film revolves around Chihiro, a ten-year-old girl unhappy with the fact that her family is moving into a new home. On the way, her father takes a wrong turn and leads them to what looks like an abandoned theme park. As the family walks along the street, they find a shop with an abundance of food displayed on the counter. Chihiro, following her intuition, decides to not eat unlike her parents who devours the food in front of them, eventually turning into pigs. Stumbling upon a bathhouse, there she meets a young boy named Haku who tells her to cross the river before sunset, however, it was too late and Chihiro was already trapped in the spirit world. Finding work at the bathhouse run by Yubaba, she renames her Sen, gaining control over Chihiro. Haku warns her that if she forgot her name, she will not be able to escape the spirit world. During her stay, she encounters
antagonist in the film is the character, Salim. Salim is classified as the antagonist throughout the
of influence in both the characters and gender roles of people in our society. The films have brought about the shaping of morals, behaviors and characters of not only children, but also adults in todays society, through engaging them in a constant series of unthinking consumption. In addition, most of the films in Disney bring out many different gender roles and people who grew up watching them have been influenced greatly by the content in the films (Blum 13). This paper will involve the various roles played by the characters in the films and how their roles have influenced the society at large.
Some people might disagree like the antagonists from these stories or people from the real world because they aren't paying attention on what they're doing or what are they reading even people hate the stories, or the people in the story, but if they know the character better they might be surprised on the good character and understand on what they are sacrificing!!!
Chiyo eventually gets separated from her sister and is alone. This movie shows the struggle Chiyo has to face while adapting to this lifestyle and the difficulties she faces too find real love. As she grows up Chiyo becomes one of the most popular geishas and enters a new lifestyle in society but this changes as World War II changes Japan and the geisha world.