Dally is the princess character who is kidnapped in the opening scene. She will be held captive by the kidnapper until Damian, the hero, rescues her. Damian is the knight who must go on a mission to rescue his love, Dally, who was kidnapped by Alex, the antagonist. Alex kidnaps Dally out of anger towards Damian and must keep his identity hidden to succeed in his role as the kidnapper. The three main actors each fulfill classic character roles of princess, hero, and kidnapper/antagonist to advance the storyline in the opening scene.

1. Actors

2. Dally
This is Dally, who is one of the
actors in our opening scene
and she is the person who is
getting kidnapped. In Vladimir
Propp’s theory Dally is seen to
be the ‘princess’ who has been
taken from her hero, now she
will have to stay in captivity
with the kidnapper until her
knight and shining armor
comes to rescue her.

3. Damian
This is the second actor in
our opening scene, called
Damian and he is the hero in
the movie who rescues the
princess from the antagonist.
He is the reason why Dally
has been kidnapped
therefore his role in the
scene is to go on a mission
looking for Dally who is his
prize possession.

4. Alex
The last actor in our opening
scene is Alex who is the
kidnapper and antagonist
within the movie. Due to the
problems he is having with
Damian he takes his anger out
on Dally. His role in the scene
is to kidnapp his enemies prize
possession, and he needs to
ensure that his face never gets
revealed, otherwise his game
is over.

5.  We do not have a wide range of
characters within our opening scene, but
the three that we do have, each play
significant roles that they need to play
within the scene, in order to follow the
storyline that we have created.