Outline and Brainstorm

WHAT...

...is a trope?-->a familiar thing repeated in different ways, a certain element used over and over again.

-->Meme(important?)

*cliche

*trope

*slogan

*an image

*a joke

*a new word

*an idea

-basically something that is an ageless "trend"

...is a revelation trope?-->Elements of a revelation or message that are repeated or common

Key Elements of Revelation Trope

1. The ignorant masses are in a...(dumb high school kids)

2. Unacceptable/oppressive situation-people are harmed

3. Prophet/revealer

4. Shares a message

5. Connects the dots in a new way

6. offers a vision of a "redeemed" world

7. There is opposition to the message

8. Drama occurs

HOW...

...Does the revelation trope work?

->In Firefox Angelina Jolie's character chides a group of girls for letting a teacher sexually harass them, and tells them that if they just stand by, then they are just as bad as the teacher himself.

-the message is that the girls "are the assholes" and that they can fight back if they stand up to him together.

->In the matrix Morphius opens Neo's eye to the fact that he has never actually lived, he has been inside his head own head his whole life. that the world he "lives" in is something created to cover up the real world.

--->So basically a revealer comes and alters how a person or how people see the world.

AND?...

... After watching the Matrix i started thinking about my own life, about how this could all be fake, about how I never really know what is a dream and what is my reality. I mean if you think about it, how do we know for sure that we are not asleep when we are "awake", or awake when we are "asleep". What it the real reality, and what kind of reality do we live in? When we make a revelation, do we ever stop to think when we started to take notice of this occurrence? And when we do make a revelation, does it really make a difference in how we go about living our daily lives, the way it seems to in the movies?



----->O U T L I N E



Intro.

-trope and rev. trope

body 1.

-rev. trope key elements

-maybe introduce meme (?)

body 2.

-talk about trope in firefox

-talk about trope in the matrix

body 3.

talk about own personal ideas/questions