Narrative Structure of 2 Movies

Worksheet – Narrative Structure of 2 Films

Using the 10 points to list the similarities, i.e., they share the same recipe/structure in making the film.

Movie 1: I Am Legend	Movie 2 : Transformers 2
1.     Equilibrium A man fines a cure for cancer but becomes a deadly virus.	Sam Witwicky is a student living is daily life until a piece of the All-Spark Jolts his mind.
2.     Disturbance The virus breaks out in Manhattan and turns people into Aggressive and Darkseekers which are weak to the UV light	A piece of the All-Spark jolts symbols into Sam’s mind which reads out the locations of the matrix and a structure which  can destroy the sun. This provokes the Decepticons to hunt him down for the information.
3.     Protagonist Robert Neville is a virologist for the military, him and his dog go around town looking for food and defending themselves from the zombie turned humans called Darkseekers.	Sam Witwicky is the centre of the conflict, the decepticons want him while the autobots defend him.
4.     Plan Robert Neville continues to search for a cure and continue to communicate to anyone who can hear him on the radio at mid day every day to meet him there.	Sam begins his journey of finding out what the symbols mean and why the decepticons are after him for it.
5.     Obstacle The Darkseekers attack Robert and Sam because they want their kin	The decepticons are Sam’s major obstacle as they are trying to capture him while he tries to find out the meaning behind.
6.     Complications   After being saved by a women and her son they take Robert back to his home but they left a trail of scent which the Darkseekers find his home and try to break in to get back 1 of their kin.	One of the main characters Optimus Prime dies and the matrix key which Sam finds turns to dust.
7.     Timeout Robert Neville come across a Anna and her son	Sam and Michaela almost lose each other when Sam tries to run to Optimus.
8.     Crisis The Darkseekers break into Robert’s home and so the three of them trap themselves in the basement behind thick glass. The Darkseekers find the basement and try to smash the glass.	The Decepticons and Autobots fight each other at a desert to defend the humans but the Decepticons don’t care about the humans because they want the sun’s energy.
9.     Climax Robert Neville gives them the cure to K.V. and tell them to hide in this compartment and Robert Sacrifices himself by blowing up the Darkseekers and himself with a grenade.	Sam brings back Optimus to life with the matrix and Optimus flies in and defeats the main enemies.
10.   Resolution Anna and her son find the resistance where she brings the cure to the disease	The Decepticons are defeated and go back to hiding, the Autobots go back to hunting down the Decepticon and Sam goes back to his studies.