Narrative Theories

Tzvetan Todorov

• He proposed that all narratives have 5 stages and this occurs in films, TV, literature as well as other media contexts.
• Equilibrium - Normality at the beginning, when everything appears as it is
• Disruption - When something happens to upset the normality
• Acknowledgement - When the main protagonist realises something has happened and decided to act upon this
• Attempt to restore - The attempt to get things back to normality
• New Equilibrium - Everything is back to the new version of normality

Band of Horses - Dilly

- Equilibrium - Bikers ride into town, oblivious to the fact that the local people will be against them and take offence to their presence

- Disruption - In the bar when it is clear that both groups of people have a mutual dislike of one another and the bikers react by shooting their fingers at people

- Acknowledgement - This occurs when the policeman picks up the phone to call for back-up to help deal with the threat from the bikers

- Attempt to restore - The bikers are stopped from leaving town and there is a shoot-out to determine who wins

- New Equilibrium - Bikers depart after the shoot-out and they go on the run from the law whilst the townspeople struggle to recover from the devastation of the attack 

Enrique Iglesias - Hero
- Equilibrium - They are in love and on the run with the money to live their life freely (Enrique with Jennifer Love Hewitt)
- Disruption - You see the villain and you see how the couple are going to be running into trouble
- Acknowledgement - When Enrique turns up to the place and realises he's got to fight to survive and face the villain
- Attempt to restore - He fights for the money and girl
- New Equilibrium - Enrique dies and Jennifer is without a husband and the police arrested the villain

Katy Perry - Roar
- Equilibrium - Reality is she is in a plane crash and she is scared
- Disruption - The tiger killing the person she was with and realising she is surrounded by tigers
- Acknowledgement - That she has to face the fierce nature and fight the crocodiles and tigers and whatever other animal
- Attempt to restore - She is roaring on top of mountains to try and get help and get off the island where she is trapped
- New Equilibrium - Her new life on the island with animals as friends and living out of the plane and making it her home