Character Archetypes are the more popular most movies now like Karate Kid, Finding nemo, most super hero and the Disney are great examples. My favorite character archetype is the fairy god mother. The most popular is Cinderella. In this movie Cinderella has a evil stepmom and sisters. And everyone knows the rest of that movie it’s a CLASSIC!!
Another character archetype is the mentor. The best modern example is karate kid. In this movie Jaden Smith,” Dre Parker” his single mom works for Chrysler and to keep her job they must move to china. Dre meets a girl and he likes her but this bully picks on dre for being an outsider and gets in to lots of fights. Dre meets Mr.Han. “Jackie Chan” he becomes dre’s mentor to teach him the basics, the fundamentals, and the main purpose of Kung Fo. Like all the good tear jerking movies the good always wins and don’t want to ruin it for some people that read my blog but it’s a GREAT movie!
Another archetype that I’m going to explain is the scapegoat. In the modern film law abiding citizen, the main characters Jamie Foxx is the lawer of Gerard Butler. In this movie Gerard is a father with a wife and their young daughter. On an average night there house is broken into and the wife and daughter are raped and murdered and the two men responsible are free and not in jail 10 years after this happens. Gerard takes matter into his own hands and finds away to get around the law and plans the next few years of how to escape prison and all kinds of crazy things. Jamie has to figure out how he does this before he kills again! This movie is a great thriller and action movie as well.
My last character archetype is the bad mother. In the modern film gramy award winning Precious. In this film the young girl mother of 1 and pregnant by her father. Her mom is always being mean and making her do all the house work and feeding her mom. Mary (the mom) is so full of hatred to her own daughter. Just because her husband/boyfriends want to rape her daughter and take full advantage of the young girl. In the middle of the story she has to go to a recovery school and has to learn how to do so much and has to learn how to read and write again. With the help of her loving teacher and social worker she can get all this accomplished. She works so hard not to get in to trouble. She does a very good job in this film. Now after watching it i feel her pain having to go through that and being pregnant from her own dad, and her mom just stayed there and seen it all and built up all this hatred to her. Over all this is a good movie. :D
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