Freytag Pyramid: Amelie

Exposition

They present us a brief sequence of what happened when Amelie born.

Amelie parents are shown: both very serious and can’t show affection also we get to know her only friend (beside imagination) Cachalote a golden fish.

Now we are in the future and get to know more about Amelie: she is a waitress, she only sees her father in weekends and she is single.

Inciting-incident

 Amelie is watching television and they present the death of Lady Di, she let fall something to the ground, when she goes to pick it up, she discovers a secret hole with a box. She decided to found the owner of that box.

She starts the quest to find the owner on the box, in the meantime we get to know a lot of people in the neighborhood and in the café where she works. She finally reaches the owner of the box and realizes that helping people give her a great satisfaction.

Rising Action

Amelie starts a new enterprise: mind in others business to help them: she helps the jealous man and the lady of the cigarettes to get together, she helps the boy that sells fruit makinf fun of his boss.

Amelie encounters with Nino, the guy of the photo album. He go but leaves his phot album, Amelie discovers that he is “researching” a “man ghost”. So she decides to solve the problem of the man.

Climax

First she tell Nino to go to the fair so he can recover the album, he goes and Amelie “plays” with him, he recovers the album but don’t know who is Amelie.

Nino starts tracking Amelie and reaches the café where she works: in that moment he discovers who is Amelie and she falls in love but run away.

Then she realizes that there’s no ghost man, he is simple the one that repairs the photo booth. So she decided to call Nino to show that.

Falling Action

Amelie continues tu help a lot of people but in particular: the painter, is happier because Amelie makes to him videos about the Tour of France.

She tells Nino to go to the train station: she prepares everything for Nino to meet with the photo booth guy so he can understand that there’s no ghost.

Nino is sees Amelie in the train station but she run away.

Moments of last suspense

The painter makes a video to Amelie telling that she must stop helping others and needs to fight for what she wants or her life would be ruined

Nino searches for Amelie in the café, she talks with another waitress. She tells him where he can reach Amelie. Amelie thinks Nino wants that woman so she leaves.

Resolution

Nino go to Amelie’s house and kissed her, they are happy.

Other characters of the movie also are happy: Amelie’s father decides to go to a trip and the sad writer now is fulfilling with what he does.