Character
Profiles
RICK WEAVING
(VILLAIN)
Rick is the villain in our narrative, he looks psychotic – he has long hair, that covers his face, rough clothes and looks generally very untidy - which is ideal because he’s an ex-convict. He’s seeking revenge on the 5 police officers who put him in jail, at the start of the narrative he’s already had revenge on 4 of the officers and the last police officer, Robert Shaw, is who he’s seeking revenge on, he does this by kidnapping Robert’s son and killing his wife. Rick is a very a aggressive and angry person, most think this stems from the fact that his father was very abusive and both his mother and father were alcoholics, so his only way to turn was to crime. His character is a generic convention of a crime-thriller as and audience expects to see a villain and when looking at the audience survey, it was clear that the audience expected the villain to be an ex-convict.
Rick is the villain in our narrative, he looks psychotic – he has long hair, that covers his face, rough clothes and looks generally very untidy - which is ideal because he’s an ex-convict. He’s seeking revenge on the 5 police officers who put him in jail, at the start of the narrative he’s already had revenge on 4 of the officers and the last police officer, Robert Shaw, is who he’s seeking revenge on, he does this by kidnapping Robert’s son and killing his wife. Rick is a very a aggressive and angry person, most think this stems from the fact that his father was very abusive and both his mother and father were alcoholics, so his only way to turn was to crime. His character is a generic convention of a crime-thriller as and audience expects to see a villain and when looking at the audience survey, it was clear that the audience expected the villain to be an ex-convict.
ROBERT SHAW (HERO)
Robert is the hero in our narrative, he looks innocent – neat hair and clothes, he looks friendly and is polite – which is expected because he’s the hero, and his son plays the ‘damsel in distress’ (Propp), his wife also plays the victim as she is killed by Rick. He’s the 5th victim of Rick’s; he’s the last one on his list that Weaving is planning on getting revenge on. His character is also a generic convention of a crime-thriller as the audience expect for a police officer character to appear, this was made clear by the audience survey as a police officer was one of the top choices from the people asked.
Robert is the hero in our narrative, he looks innocent – neat hair and clothes, he looks friendly and is polite – which is expected because he’s the hero, and his son plays the ‘damsel in distress’ (Propp), his wife also plays the victim as she is killed by Rick. He’s the 5th victim of Rick’s; he’s the last one on his list that Weaving is planning on getting revenge on. His character is also a generic convention of a crime-thriller as the audience expect for a police officer character to appear, this was made clear by the audience survey as a police officer was one of the top choices from the people asked.
We have based the
characters on Propps’ narrative theory as we have used a villain and a hero,
which according to Propp are the stock characters within any film and can be
applied to all. We’re also using Strauss’ theory of binary opposites as we have
two characters that have different aims within the film.
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