Title: Piranha
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2010
Paradigmatic conventions:
Setting: the lake at spring break
Character: Group of teenagers
Villain: ‘Piranha’
Props: teeth
Evokes fear: Being stuck in a place that you can’t escape, surround by things that want to harm you.
Plot synopsis: Spring break has just begun as an earth quake results into the floor of the lake breaking, and with it releasing deadly piranha’s that were known to be extinct for other two million years. The piranha is loose, but so are the teens, how long will it take for one of them to killed off?
Narrative time line:
Period of equilibrium
1.) Calm setting
2.) splitting of the floor of the lake
3.) Entering the lake
4.) Exploring the lake
5.) Discovering unknown life form.
Moment of Disequilibrium
Reveal of the Piranha 47”
Period of Disequilibrium
1.) Scuba diver eaten alive
2.) Realisation of what type of Piranha they have discovered.
3.) Woman being bitten in the water
4.) All the teenagers begin to be attacked in the water
5.) Boat being spiralled into the sea by the Piranha.
Conflict: Piranha
Complication x3: Outnumbered, Don’t know how to get rid of them, They hunt in packs.
Crisis: Spring break has just started and they are having trouble getting the teenagers out of the water.
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