Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)

• Tzvetan Todorov - narrative theory of equilibrium

  equilibrium -> disruption of equilibrium -> recognition of disruption -> resolve the disruption -> return to a new equilibrium
• Claude Levi-Strauss

  binary opposites are very important in narrative
• Vladimir Propp - character types

  • narratives function through characters' "spheres of action"
  • the character types are:

  the hero

  the helper

  the princess

  the donor

  the villain

  false hero

  the dispatcher