Story circle: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
(spoilers for the movie, of course)
the super mario bros. movie has an unusually clear story circle structure:
- mario and luigi and their plumbing business...
- and their mean ex-boss, and disappointed family.
- "we're going to save Brooklyn!" but they get sucked into the pipe and are separated.
- mario goes through peach's trials, and succeeds, kind of, so she takes him along. arena fight.
- mario beats DK! the kongs are on our side!
- ambush! disaster! mario and DK are eaten by a big fish. evacuate the kingdom! all is lost! peach "accepts" bowser's proposal.
- wedding... sacrifices... peach has a gun! I mean an ice flower... BULLET! BROOKLYN!
- oh no, brooklyn! but star! so fine. bad ex-boss is humbled. parents are proud. lesson: just have superpowers, dummy.
(in retrospect — what ever happened with that burst pipe? I guess brooklyn managed the situation just fine without them after all...)