Film Analysis (Taken)

Ordinary World: Bryan's life as a Retired Government Agent

Call to Adventure: When his daughter, Kim is taken

Refusal of the Call: He has no choice to refuse the call to get his only daughter back

Meeting with the Mentor: He talks with his firend who is involved in interpratating information and has alot of knowledge about where his daughter could be

Crossing the Threshold: Leaving to go to Paris, France to find Kim

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Those who took his daughter (Marko), The Policeman/ Organizer of the Prostitution ( Jean-Claude), St. Clair, and anyone who got in his way of finding Kim

Approach: Bryan found alot of people who knew/knows about where his daughter could be, although alot of them were no help, they did bring him closer to his reward, which was finding his daughter

Ordeal: He finds his daughter, but she is being auctioned off to other men, so his forces one man in particular to buy her for $500,000. He thinks he is on his way to reuniting again, but he captured by his enemies and is told to be killed

Reward: Finding his Daughter

The Road Back: He goes to meet the man they have sold his daughter to

Resurrection: He gets away by killing all five men who were about to kill him

Return with the Elixiar: They are back home, and Bryan takes Kim to meet a friend he met earlier in the movie.


ARCHTYPES
Hero: Bryan

Mentor: Friend, Man who interprets french to english, previous knowledge

Threshold Guardian: Jean-Claude, Marko, Peter, anyone who got in his way, Ex-wife

Herald: Jean-Claude, alot of dangerous people who didn't care to kill, luckily Bryan wasn't either

Shapeshifter: Kim's friend in paris, Peter

Shadow: Anyone involved in the Prostitution Scam in Paris

Trickster: Kim;s firend, Peter, Marko, Peter

Journey

Twenty-seven year old Quinn McAdams thought her life was going perfect. She has a wonderful fiance, a rewarding job as a teacher and has big plans of exploring the world. Unfortunately, she receives a phone call from her mother informing her that, her father has passed away suddenly due to a heart attack. Quinn leaves her big city life and travels 546 miles to her small town Auburn, Alabama to comfort her grieving mother and to see her father for the last time. Sadly, Quinn gets in a terrible car accident which leaves her forgetting everything before the accident. She embarks on a journey of finding who she is and what she was before. Will the memory of her father and her life before ever come back to her or is it lost forever?

Hero: Quinn McAdams
Ordinary World: Her life before the car accident
Call to Adventure: Father's death
Special World: Life after the car accident

Hero

Name: Quinn McAdams

Age: 27

Race/religion/gender: European/Catholic/ Female

Parents: John and Sally McAdams

Style of dress: Classy, sophisticated, with a twist of whatever she feels

Hometown: Auburn, Alabama

Marital status/family: Single

Most embarrassing moment: The door of her monster van falling off it's hinges, outside her school, in front of her crush, in 8th grade.

Greatest fear: Failure

Strongest desire: To move away from he sleepy old town

Job: Recently unemployed

Where she wants to be in 5 years: Hopes to be wealthy and married and away from Northern Alabama

Guiltiest pleasure: White Chocolate and playing oldies music from any generation other than her own.

Identifying marks: Large Brown eyes, Laughs funny,talks out loud when solving any sort of problem, one leg shorter than the other, and only has one dimple

Mannerisms/gestures: Talks with hands a lot, studders slightly, limps when walking, when nervous she bites the inside of her cheeks, and never makes eye contact.

What she was like in school: Known, but shy. Beautiful and Smart. Always had an interesting story to tell. Always failed on tests, no matter how hard she studied.

Favorite sayings: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. A wise man does not need advice and a fool won't take it."

Favorite quotes from songs: "And when you dream, dream big, As big as the ocean blue 'Cause when you dream it might come true, When you dream, dream big"

Favorite movie quotes: "Our actions are what set things in motion, and we have to live with that."

Most valuable possession: A locket her mother gave her at 4. It is lucky.

How she feels about love: Someday it will catch up with her, maybe when she stops running away from it.

Philosophy on life: Mistakes are the stepping stones to mastery