Analyzing The Movie 'The Godfather'
Aristotle wrote his Poetics of storytelling over two thousand years ago, yet they still apply today. The Godfather is an epic masterpiece that demonstrates how applying the Poetics can ensure that a film's story grabs the audience and keeps them captivated until the last frame. The best form of tragedy, Aristotle argues, has a plot that is what he calls "complex," it imitates actions arousing horror, fear and pity, and the hero's fortune changes from happiness to misery because of some tragic mistake that he or she makes. There are undoubtedly many movies that provide that hero drama. There is one movie that does use plot. “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”. This movie is an intended comedy that still uses the three key elements of the plot; reversal, suffering, and recognition. We are going to see how structure of story-telling written over two thousand years ago is being applied to the American Movie today.
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A reversal, or turning point, is the change of on particular moment described from one state of things to its opposite. A real change of events to keep the story going. In “Talladega Nights”, the main character, Ricky Bobby, was a renowned race car driver that met his career end after a fatal car crash left him to hallucinate his combustion, and leave his race company owners to get him off the team. This manuever is clearly a reversal in the plot. At one point this amazing race car driver is the hero everyone looks up to. Ricky Bobby is racing, as they explain in the movie. The major turning point is his initial meltdown and hallucination that led to his dismissal of the racing team ending his excellent racing
A reversal, or turning point, is the change of on particular moment described from one state of things to its opposite. A real change of events to keep the story going. In “Talladega Nights”, the main character, Ricky Bobby, was a renowned race car driver that met his career end after a fatal car crash left him to hallucinate his combustion, and leave his race company owners to get him off the team. This manuever is clearly a reversal in the plot. At one point this amazing race car driver is the hero everyone looks up to. Ricky Bobby is racing, as they explain in the movie. The major turning point is his initial meltdown and hallucination that led to his dismissal of the racing team ending his excellent racing