Theorist- Propp

He also concluded that all the characters could be resolved into 8 broad character types in the 100 tales he analyzed:

1. The villain — struggles against the hero.
2. The dispatcher —character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
3. The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest.
4. The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.
5. Her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished.
6. The donor —prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
7. The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess.
8. False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess.
   
   Trying to figure out in which film who plays what part is actually a lot more difficult than originally thought, some are obvious others aren't. I tried to figure out who each character was from 'Tangled' the Disney film.
   
   1. The villian- Her mother- The old woman fake mother, (mother gothel) she keeps the flower for herself, she cuts Rapunzels hair off, keeps her locked in a tower and doesn't let her out. She has eery piano music playing in the background of the scenes indicating to the audience that she is evil.
   2. The dispatcher- I don't think that anyone in this film really fits this label, she decides herself that she wants to leave the tower to go see the lanterns which her true parents let off, so they might be the dispatchers in a distant way, or Paschal the chameleon indicated to her often to leave so I would say that he was the dispatcher, but I can't decide  
   3. The helper (magical)- Her hair helps her and others get out of dangerous situations, and also the horse Maximus helps her and Flynn out later on in the film. I would class Maximus the horse as the helper for this film, he also has trumpet like music sort of like army music playing indicating to the audience that he is brave and loyal. 
   4. The princess or prize- Rapunzel- She gets stolen at birth, she gets locked in a tower for the rest of her life and doesn't meet her real parents or see any of the world that is not from her view from her window, she is trapped. She married later on to Flynn- who I believe is the hero.
   5. Her father- I do not know who is the 'father', I could not work it out. 
   6. The donor- The only reason Flynn came across the tower is because of 'the lost princess' tiara' which was stolen by the two men Flynn's former cohorts. So I would say to some extent these two characters were the donors
   7. The hero- Flynn Rider, he climbs up the tower and accidently gets envolved with this girl Rapunzel and is forced to take her to see the floating lanterns, he rescues her from her life of loneliness, imprisonment and over the journey they fall in love, and eventually get married.
   8. The false hero- In a way I think that Mother Gothel is the false hero as she tries to convince the princess that she was just protecting her but really she was using her for her own gain.
   
   
   
   I tried out Propps theory on this Disney film to see if it was needed and still happens 30 years after he had figured this out. I think that this does actually happen in the majority of films, the eight different characters are set out, but I also think that not all the characters are easy to label into these categories. In my film, I think that I would like to include these 8 characters to fit in with the norms of film making and make a semi-successful film, but, as I am only making the first two minutes of my film, I cannot include all eight in the first two minutes