Analyzing character development in three film
Pan’s Labyrinth
Character development
Ofelia
Ofelia’s first weakness is cowardly, at first she afraid of Captain Vidal, her mother’s second husband, Captain Vidal is a powerful and violent man, he used Ofelia’s coward to control her and even want to wipe out her.
Ofelia’s second weakness is be keen on fantasy. she imaginative and curious, she still believes in fairy tales and magic, her mother carmen love her so much but don’t want her daughter too imaginative, she wants her to be a realist.
Ofelia’s weakness is psychological, these weaknesses hurt herself, villain Captain Vidal used her weakness to control her, give harm to her body and her lovest mother. Her mother Carmen also doesn’t understand her and misunderstand her like a naughty child. She is struggling between reality and imagination.
Story development
the second weakness Ofelia has let her finds out about Pan’s Labyrinth and gets the mission from Pan. But also strength the misunderstanding between Ofelia and her mother.
The main theme of the story is Ofelia wants to protect the person she loves, The conflict is that Captain Vidal only want the baby in her mother’s belly, he doesn’t care about her mother’s life, and he killed many rebels cruelly, the only person who good to Ofelia is one of the rebels, for this purpose, she starts to fight with Captain Vidal. and the troubles make Ofelia become braver and braver, Besides she gets missions from pan. Proving herself worthy of the underworld. When Faun tells Ofelia her true identity, it comes with one condition: in order to return to the underworld, Ofelia must first pass a series of tests to prove she hasn’t been corrupted by her time among humans. every mission finally led her to face her weakness cowardly.
The silence of lambs
Character development
Clarice Starling
Clarice Starling’s weakness is pride. She acts to be a proud woman because her working area FBI has consisted of men, She is an outsider trying to fit in. Hannibal explosive her weakness, force her to grow.
Story development
The main theme of the silence of lamb is She wants to identify and catch the killer. After Hannibal has exposed Clarice’s weaknesses and challenged her own perception of herself, she’s forced to grow. If she hadn’t locked horns with Hannibal, Clarice might not have been able to find Bill, or survive the ensuing chilling confrontation. Hannibal impact Clarice in both positive and negative way, To finish the task she needs to put down her pride to accept Hannibal’s orders. She appreciates Hannibal as her teacher but also rejects him as a criminal. under the help of Hannibal, Clarice fit in with the FBI, and prove herself as an excellent agent, she becomes more worldly-wise, to finish the task she would put down her pride.
Nightcrawler
Louis Bloom
Louis Bloom’s weakness is Greed, He is smart and Execution, he wants to earn more and more money, no matter what it takes.
Story development
The main theme is Louis Bloom wants to gain a foothold in L.A. He is a lower person and his greed leads him to try to steal things to earn money, he works hard and full of ambition, he does try to get a normal job, but no company would like to hire a thief. when Lou driving home, he sees a car crash and found a freelance job in photojournalism. He starts to step in this area. He met Nina and Rick, Nina is trying to get a higher position in her work career. She really similar to Lou but she still has a little moral. She indirectly pushing Lou to use more extreme ways to get more videos. More videos could give her the opportunity to get a higher position and Lou can earn more money.
Rick is a lower person, he still keeps his kindness but he is cowardly, he is Lou’s assistance, Lou uses his naivety, when Lou indirectly kills him, the audience knows Lou is already losing his mind, there is no moral on Lou.
The story structure of these three films are really similar, the main character has their own weakness they met troubles or the villain character, which force them to make a change. these changes could be negative or positive. Excepted Lou they all mitigate their weakness, Lou was devour by his Greed, he walks in the most extreme direction.