First, please write an introduction why Ive decided to analyze the story of “Dallas Buyers Club”
Then apply the terms below and write at least a paragraph for each of them. Please do it in a bullet point.
1. Opening Image: the very first impression of what a movie is – its tone, mood, the type and scope of the film – are all found in the opening image.The opening image is also an opportunity to give us the starting point of the hero ( this is what I wrote: As the film starts we see Ron having sex with two women in a stall-like enclosure next to a ring where a rodeo is in progress. As Ron grunts away he sees the cowboy getting tossed and thrown from, then attacked by a bull. The dramatic irony of a moment is only the audiences know that Ron is engaging in the more dangerous activity than the cowboy.)
2. Theme stated: somewhere in the first five minutes of a well-sturcture screen play, someone will pose a question or make a statement that is the theme of the movie. This statement is the movie’s thematic premise.
3. Set-up: in the set-up, the first thing one does is introduce the world of the film. In the case of Jerry Maguire it’s a high stakes – pressure cooker world of Sports management.In The Godfather, it’s the world of a criminal family.
4.Call to adventure: inciting incident
5.seperation: the venturing out from common day
6. refusal to call.
7. initiation: the battle with fabulous forces
8. Supernatural Aid: Some help is given to the hero, sufficient to make them wiser and stronger and hopefully better able to face the challenges of the adventure
9. B story: mostly love story. It also carries the theme of the film.
10. The road of trials: https://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/hero_journey/road_trials.htm
11: Apotheosis: https://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/hero_journey/apotheosis.htm\
12: the ultimate boon:
https://www.rainbowgryphon.com/mythology/heros-journey-ultimate-boon/
13: the magic flight:
https://gordonnapier.com/the-heros-journey-magic-flight/
14. Rescue from without:https://gordonnapier.com/the-heros-journey-rescue-from-without/
ANTICIPATION STAGE: the hero is in some way incomplete or unfilled and his/her thoughts are turned towards the future in hope of some unusual gratification. Some object of desire or course of action presents itself, and his/her energies have found a focus.
DREAM STAGE: he/she becomes in some way committed to his/her course of action and for a while things go almost improbably well for the hero. He/She is winning the gratification he/she had dreamed of and seems to be getting away with it.
FRUSTRATION STAGE: almost imperceptibly things begin to go wrong. The hero cannot find a point of rest. He begins to feel a sense of frustration, and in order to secure his position may feel compelled to further ‘dark acts’ which lock him into a course of action even more irrevocably. A ‘shadow figure’ may appear at this point, seeming in some small way to threaten him. (Richard Goodwin)
NIGHTMARE STAGE: things are now slipping seriously out of the hero’s control. He/she has a mounting sense of threat and despair. Forces of opposition and fate are closing in on him.
DESTRUCTION OR DEATH WISH STAGE: either by forces the hero has aroused against him, or by some final act of violence which precipitates his own death (murder or suicide), the hero is destroyed.
At last please write a conclusion
P.S.
This is synopsis I wrote about the story.
You can refer to this if you want to:
In 1985 Dallas, Ron Woodroof, a rodeo cowboy and electrician, passes out from electric accident and brought to a hospital. At hospital he is diagnoses with AIDS and given 30 days to live. At first, he refuses to accept the diagnosis but remembers having a sex with an intravenous drug-using prostitute and quickly evicted himself from his home. He did some research on the decease and drugs and went back to hospital to get drugs that are thought to prolong the life of AIDS patients. At hospital, however, Dr. Eve Saks, tells him that the drug, zidovudine (AZT), is testing drugs that are not yet proved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for testing on humans. She informs that the drug is in clinical trials that only half the patients receive the real drug whereas the other half receives a placebo.
Ron met a hospital worker in a strip club and bribes him to get him the AZT. As he begins taking it he often sees hallucinations and health gets worsen. The drug ran out after couple of weeks and the hospital worker gives Ron information of a doctor who has AZT in Mexico. Ron thought it was a fraud and tries to punch him but fainted to the ground. When he wakes up from the hospital he meets Rayon, who is a HIV-positive trans woman and participant of the AZT critical trial, toward whom he is hostile.
A month later from he was diagnoses AIDS, Ron drives to a hospital in Mexico to get more of AZT. At hospital Dr. Vass tells him that AZT is poisonous and breakdown the immune systems. He instead prescribes him ddC and the protein peptide T, which are not approved by FDA.
After three moths, he finds his health much improved. Since the drugs are not illegal in the U.S. he imported them from Mexico by camouflaging as a priest and telling the FDA officer that they are for personal use. Meanwhile, Dr. Saks finds that some negative effects of AZT and informs to her supervisor, Dr. Sevard, but is told that the clinical trial cannot be discontinued.
Ron starts selling the drugs on the street and meets Rayon again. He reluctantly starts business with Rayon who knows a lot of people with AIDS and get them to Ron as clients. They soon establish the Dallas Buyers Club, charging $400 per month for membership. It becomes extremely popular and Ron gradually begins to think of Rayon as a friend and worries about her addiction to cocaine. After the trip to Japan to illegally import interferon he has a heart attack and passed out. At hospital Dr. Sevard learns that the club and Ron’s drugs interrupts his trial. Richard Barkley, the FDA officer, confiscates the ddC and threatens to have Ron arrested. Saks, on the other hand, admit the benefits of the club but feel powerless about not being able to do anything. Barkely gets a police permits and raids the club, but can do anything except give Ron a fine.
In 1987, the FDA changes the regulation such that any unapproved drug is also illegal. While Ron is stuck without money for peptide T, Rayon begs her father for money and tells Ron that she sold her life insurance policy. He is thus able to go to Mexico for more of the peptide T. When he returns he finds out Rayon’s death and gets upset about how she was being taken to hospital and given AZT.
Saks is also upset by Rayon’s death and the hospital asks her to resign after they discover that she is linking her patients with the club. She refuses to comply and insists them to fire her.
As time passes, making money becomes less of a concern for Ron and he priority becomes to provide the drugs to AIDS patients. In 1987, he files a lawsuit against the FDA for the legal right to take the protein. The judge is compassionate by Ron’s plight but lacks the legal authority to intervene. When he comes back his friends, patients, and Saks greets him with a hug.
As the film ends, on-screen text reveals that “Fallowing the trial, the FDA allowed Ron to obtain Peptide T for his own personal use” and that he died seven years after he was diagnosed with the HIV.
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