Tuesday 15 January 2008






1. Robert Neville – I Am Legend



Role in the Film?

Robert’s role is supposedly the only survivor left in New Work alive with his apparent immunity to a man made virus that was supposedly made to cure cancer but presumably a mutation occurred that caused the inhabitants to become rabid monsters of little thought and emotion and remaining purely on animal instinct. Robert Neville is shown trying to survive through the rough and deserted environment of New York while attempting to make a cure to the virus. After meeting two additional survivors who rescue him, he then sacrifices himself to save them and the possible cure to the virus.

What are his/her Flaws?

Roberts’s main flaw is he believes that he alone must cure the virus and refuses to leave until he completes his work and receive help from others; he dismisses other’s words saying that “It wasn’t supposed to work that way”. His other flaws are mostly due to him living alone during the most part, he is often found talking to himself and speaking to manikins to try and simulate speaking to living beings. However this slowly causes him to lose his mind.

How does the film relate to the Character?

Robert was a part of the people quarantining the city, a lieutenant colonel that was stationed to help stay behind and find a cure. Since he is the only one left alive in New York, he is determined to find a cure for the virus. The Film shows his survival and how he copes to survive and find a cure for the virus

Alice – Resident Evil

Role in the Film?

Alice is the primary antagonist; she was originally a security agent working for an organisation known as Umbrella, a genetic and chemical warfare organisation working under the front of a popular medical supplier, who had a massive underground lab under a mansion just out skirts of a city known as “Raccoon City”. After a freak accident, she loses her memory and after trying to de-activate a homicidal AI known as the Red Queen it becomes an epic survival to evade the monsters that are created from a virus called the T-Virus, which re-animates the dead.

What is his/her flaws?

Her primary flaw is that she has lost her memory and to an extent cannot remember much of her former past. She slowly regains her former skills however. She is somewhat short tempered and sometimes reacts without thinking which leads her in many frustrating situations.

How does the Film relate to the Character?

Alice is one of the many people that enter the lab, she is apparently a security agent that is willing to leak a sample of the “T-Virus” and expose Umbrella for what it really is, however after losing her memory she is required to survive alongside an Umbrella Search Team who must evade and run from the terrors and monsters that the T virus created. After she regains her past memories, she knows that there is an Anti-Virus that can cure her injured team mates. She soon manages to escape only to get captured again from an Umbrella biohazard Team.

Hans Gruber – Die Hard



Role in the Film?

Hans is the primary Antagonist of the film, being the leader and sole cohort of the entire operation. Hans’s role is to try and steal $640 Million bearer bonds from the Nakatomi corp. Hans orders terrorists to secure hostages, attack the L.A.P.D. and also attempt to drill their way through a vault to get access to the money.

What are his/her flaws?

Hans has a number of smaller flaws, one of which underestimating the Protagonists intervention in his affairs as well as an ego that interferes with how Hans operates. One flaw is his bad acting and trying to kill the protagonist with an empty pistol and not realizing this when he doesn’t even inspect the gun.

How does the film relate to the Character?

Hans is the main leader and the man responsible for the attack on the Nakatomi Building, the death of several of the hostages and Nakatomi staff not to mention he orders many of the Terrorists to attempt to kill the protagonist, John Mclane and failing. He eventually dies by the hands of the Protagonist by falling out a window on the 30th floor.

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