1) Who is/are the protagonist(s) in this drama?
(Who is the hero or main agent of the adventure?)
2) What want or need drives the protagonist(s)’ decisions and behaviour throughout this story?
what is the hero’s supertask or quest?
3) What values is/are the protagonist(s) associated with, striving for, or symbolic of?
4)Who is/are the antagonist(s) in this drama?
who embodies the forces in conflict with the hero? who is the shadow? is it the same figure throughout?
5)What values is/are the antagonist(s) associated with, striving for, or symbolic of?
6)Can you think of a mythic or legendary model that is emblematic of the pattern of the story as a whole?
or does this story fall into a familiar narrative pattern (the coming-of-age story, for example)
7)What’s the significance of the title?
(not just ‘where does it come from’, but more importantly ‘what does it mean’?)
8)What’s the significance of the first image of the film?
In what ways does it connect to other elements of the film?
9)Which scenes constitute the ‘ordinary world’ of this film?
Is there any structure or pattern discernible in the sequence of ordinary-world scenes?
10)What do we learn about the protagonist(s) in these ordinary-world scenes?
What characteristics are revealed? What problems need to be faced? What ambitions, desires, or dreams does the protagonist express
