Humanities Homework Help

Compare and Contrast Movie Plots

The Coming of Age Plot

One of the 7 Common World Plots, Rags to Riches, has a more “modern” version. This is known as the “Coming of Age” plot. This is defined as “A story featuring an adolescent making the mental leap from child to adult. In real life, this happens over the course of several years. But for a movie, things have to be compressed to several months at the most, so expect some really accelerated character development. Tends to happen to a character anywhere from 13 to 20 years of age” (tvtropes.org).

By now, you should be familiar with the seven common world plots. Here is a resource you can use to review if needed though.

Your Assignment

• Your assignment is to compare and contrast two movies with a coming of age plot.

• Pick at least one movie from the list below

• Pick a second movie either from the list below or from FlickChart’s list of Best coming of age films of all-time.

Requirements

• Your assignment is to look at each movie in terms of its coming of age plot.
• You should write one-two paragraphs that points out similarities in the plots.
• You should write one-two paragraphs that points out differences in plots.
• A final paragraph should discuss the key points that a coming of age movie needs.
• Please make sure you are making specific references to both movies so that I can definitely tell which one you are discussing..

Coming of Age Movies List

Important: You must pick at least one of these movies to use in your comparison. Your second movie can come from the FlickChart list.

• Kiki’s Delivery Service (rated G, Japan)
• Whale Rider (rated PG-13, New Zealand)
• Life of Pi (rated PG-13, India)
• Slumdog Millionaire (rated R, India)