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This past weekend at TIFF I watched the red carpet premiere of Emperor directed by Peter Webber and starring Matthew Fox with Tommy Lee Jones. A story about the decision wether or not to trial the Japanese emperor for war crimes post-WWII. Held at the Roy Thomson Hall I got to see the stars on the red carpet as well as doing a opening speech before the film. It was a surprisingly good movie but while watching it I couldn’t help but make the connection to Freytag’s triangle which we learned in class. So this review is not on how well the overall movie was but how it followed the triangle’s structure.
*Spoilers*
The movie opened heavily with the bombing of Hiroshoma. A big start to a more slow rising action. The Americans go to Japan to question Japanese army officials to try and link Pearl Harbor war crimes to the emperor. The story goes through a number officials slowly leading to the climax of interrogating the emperor, along with a subplot of Matthew Fox’s character searching for a lost love.
After several interrogations and the discovery of the fate of the lost love. The climax comes towards the very end of the movie where the emperor interviewed by US officials but decide to let his reign of Japan to continue. The Falling Action/End came immediately after showing pictures with descriptions what happened after the decision.
Overall the story followed the basic Freytag’s triangle formula.
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