Sunday, December 12, 2010

Film Analysis

Mulan 
Ordinary World: Mulan is a girl that lives in China and she is getting ready to bring honor to the family and so she needs to get ready to be inspected by the match maker and she is not the perfect person to fulfill the requirements and she is not good enough to be a bride.

The Call to Adventure: The Huns have invaded China so one man from every family is suppose to go and fight in war and Mulan's father is the only living man in their family and he has a very bad leg. So Mulan desides to change her physical apperance to look like a man and take her fathers place to go fight the Huns.

Refusal of the Call: Mulan has second thoughts about doing this right before she is about to enter the camp of the other men who are going into war also. She is practising to talk like a man and practise caracteristics of a man right before she goes in.

Meeting The Mentor: While she is practising to be a man her mentor appears and her mentor is a very small dragon named Mushu. He came because he was suppose to get a guardian of the ancestors and failed so he decideds to help Mulan with her quest to impress the Ancestors. So Mushu shows up and helps convince Mulan that she can do this.

 Crossing the Threshold: So Mulan finally feels confident to go into the camp and be accepted by the other guys. Finally walks into the camp feeling confident or at least ready.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: So right when she gets into the camp the head leader all ready does not like him (mulan, HER) So she has all these men that do not like her because of a stupid fight they had that got them into trouble. Plus she did not relize how hard it was going to be to do it immotionally and physically. She finally digs deep and accomplishes all the things that they have needed to accomplish in the time she was in camp and is ready to set off to help other men fight the Huns.

Approach to the Inmost Cave: So her and the rest of the men in the camp are headed off to help other men fight the Huns. They relize when they were going to meet up with the other men that the Huns have already came to them and have died. So they head the direction where the Huns are headed to stop them before they head to the emperor. So they catch up to the Huns and they fight the Huns and Mulan shoots a mountain of snow and all the snow covers the Huns and Mulan and their men think they have killed the Huns and they find out that mulan is a girl because of a wound. So normally a women that does that should be killed but they dont kill her and mulan sees that Huns did not die and are headed to the emperor.

The Ordeal: So Mulan decides to head after them and stop them from killing the emperor. So she gets down there and her men that were with her at camp dont believe her that the Huns did not die. So the Huns take the emperor. While this happens Mulan maps out a plan to save the emperor and they get up to the room where they have take the emperor and fights the main guy of the Huns and saves the emperor. She plans for her to get onto the roof with the bad guy and have Mushu shoot a firework at the bad guy to kill him. Which it does but also blows up half of the emperors palace.

The Reward: So after Mulan killed off the main guy of the Huns the emperor gave Mulan a reward. Her Reward was that the whole kingdom bowed to her even the emperor and also the emperor gave her the sword of the Huns leader. The emperor also gave her a necklas pendalum to show what she has done for china and the emperor.

The Road Back: Mulan is worried to head back home because she desobeyed her father and she is worried that her father will be upset with her. I think she is worried to go back to the way she was before.

The Resurrection: Mulan gets back home and she shows her father all her rewards and her father is just happy that she is alive and safe.

Return with the Elixir: Mulan is back and she is not like the way she was before and now her family has honor. Plus Mushu was accepted by the ancestors and now is a guardian.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

50 word Story

My Christmas Wish
By: Alex Boye

Mom decided to get down on her knees and ask the father "to help my family". All Mom wanted for Christmas was for her family to get together and get along. Thanksgiving went by and Christmas came along and they came over and got along and she was so happy.