• Take 2 films you enjoy and break down the character development and story development throughout the film:
• Analyse how the main characters evolve
• Analyse how the characters drive the story
• If there are similarities between your films point this out and why you think they are following a similar structure if so.

The Bucket List

Black Auto Mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) loves life and is very knowledgeable. A terrible illness forced him to leave his job and family and move into the hospital for experimental treatment. Billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson), the CEO of a healthcare organization, has always adhered to the “one room, two beds, no exceptions” business philosophy, and he has to share a room with others after learning that he is seriously ill. Two strange patients who had otherwise been unrelated lived together. Although their status is very different, the two have one thing in common, that is, time is short. Carter was not rich, but he had a wife and family that loved him dearly. Although Edward was rich and often accompanied by beautiful women, he lacked the love of his family. Carter recorded on paper the unfulfilled wishes of his life. Edward, who inadvertently learns of the situation, decides to help Carter achieve his wish.

45 years have passed in a flash, and now we only have one year of life left, why not go crazy once? After figuring it out, Carter decided to listen to Edward, and the two began their plans. The two played skydiving, played sports cars on professional tracks, and went to Hong Kong for lunch. Sing along the African savannah and admire the animals around you. They also discussed how to bury after death. Next, they sped up motorcycles on the Great Wall. Arriving in the Himalayas, but catching a snowstorm, the two old men had to give up the idea of climbing to the summit.

In the face of women’s seduction, Carter finally understands that his favorite is still his wife, and he can’t wait to go home. So they went back to the United States, and at home, Carter and his wife found the feeling of their first love. Relationships become warm and touching. But carter’s body was once again in crisis.

 He was taken to the hospital, and the operation did not save his life. Edward followed Carter’s advice, and he took the initiative to find his daughter and reconcile with her. At Carter’s funeral, Edward said he had saved me and that we had both brought joy to each other. At the end of the film, the ashes of the two are placed separately in a coffee can that once made them laugh to tears, and placed at the top of mount Everest in the snow.

Intouchables

After a skydiving accident, the white billionaire Philippe (François Cluzet) is paralyzed in bed, and Philip plans to pick a life assistant to take care of his daily routine, help him eat, bathe and drive for him. However, the super high salary still makes the applicants endless, but it cannot impress his heart. It wasn’t until the appearance of the black Priests (Omar Sy) that he made his decision.

Dress had just come out of prison, burdened with his family, and was obsessed with finding a dismissal letter to claim relief to support his large family living on the outskirts of Paris. During the interview, Drees acted casually, casually teasing Philip’s physical condition and offering great courtesy to his female assistant. But Philip not only did not get angry about it, but also hired Drees.

 So Desis began a one-month trial period. Drees’s casual, free lifestyle is incompatible with the restrained atmosphere in this mansion, he brings a new vitality of life into Philip’s life, he takes him to massage, to drag racing, to do all kinds of crazy, bold things, and Philip’s attitude to life gradually changes the aspiring Driss At first, the two’s way of thinking and values are very different, Philippe wants to go to the exhibition, Driss does not want him to travel in a wheelchair and stay in the trunk of the car, So I drove Philippe’s supercar. As the understanding continued to deepen, they became friends.

 Philippe has a penpal, but he thinks that he is a disabled person, has not dared to face others, only dare to keep in touch with letters, Driss concealed Philippe to ask his penpal out, the two talked happily after meeting, Driss hid aside to hide his merits and names, the movie ended.

The two films have a lot in common, black and white, poor and rich, and both revolve around the collision of different classes. In these two films, life and death, health and disability, poverty and wealth are objective contradictions, and under this contradiction, the friendship between people depicted in the depiction, and the protagonists’ short and happy attitudes in life, but let the audience feel warm and calm, which is a respect for life and life.