Ninja Assassin Film Analysis

The film I am going to be analysing is “Ninja Assassin” it is an action/thriller film. This film consists of both narrative theories by Todorov and Vladimir. Ninja Assassin has a linear narrative pattern, as there is one story which is resolved at the end.

Todorvo’s theory is divided into three parts, equilibrium, disequilibrium and the new equilibrium (beginning, middle and end). 

Equilibrium

Ninja Assassin is about Raizo (Rain) the protagonist, the Hero in Propp’s case, a lethal killer who was brought up in the Ozunu Clan the villains to kill specific targets by butchering them into oblivion. When several people are murdered in the same ways a Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) the princess/helper suspects that this is the work of Ninja Assassins, she continuous to investigate digging herself into a large hole, after another murderer of another Europol agent she soon finds out that she is the next target, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles) the donor Mika’s boss soon finds out that Raizo is wanted by everyone from internal affairs, CIA and The Martian Military.

Dis-equilibrium

When she is confronted by the Ninja assassins at her home she is saved by the hero Razio. Then the film goes back to when Raizo was a young boy and he had strong feelings for a young Kiriko (Anna Sawai) who decided to escape the Ozunu clan by climbing over the wall of the clan camp to pursue her dream of finding freedom yet failed at the attempt and was caught and executed in front of the Ozunu clan by her elder brother Takeshi the villain.

Mika is convinced that Maslow is trying to help Razio by calling a task force to capture him and keep him in a secret location, she confronts Maslow the donor and is told in secret that he is on her side and that he is trying to save the main character from the Ozunu clan, yet the clan still manage to infiltrate the location and find Razio Yet he manages to escape.

The princess/helper and the hero swap roles in a scene of when the protagonist Raizo is badly hurt and the princess/helper saves Raizo’s life from the villains the Ozunu ninja assassins. This is where they are together for the first time and introduce themselves to one another. Whilst in the car Razio Recites how he carried out his first assassination and the reason why the Ozunu clan are after him, After his assassination he confronts his master the villain and is told to execute another escapee form the clan and retaliates against the decision by slashing his masters face with a weapon consisting of a chain with a blade at the end which is one of the hero’s signature weapon. 

New-equilibrium

This consists of the last fight which starts off with the protagonist Razio fighting 3 ninjas and one of them being Takeshi the villain who killed his lover and ending in the hero winning and then to finish the last fighting scene with Razio fighting his master Ozunu “you are still Ozunu” this quote makes Razio mad and makes him even more powerful in the sense that he can create enough power for him to teleport just as only his master could perform and defeat Ozunu yet is caught and is brought down and Mika sees Razio in danger and decides to fire at the master not knowing of his power and is taken out by Ozunu with a deep sword wound to the heart region, this gives the hero an opportunity to strike and manages to defeat the villain ending in a bloody battle and a armless master.

 As the film comes to an end the hero is seen holding the princess in a dramatic way and lays her down on the floor for a medic to see, “she has a special heart” as this is said the princess is shown pointing to the left of the wound “I was born with my heart on this side”, the protagonist walks away to where the scene fades out then in to show the wall of which Kiriko climbed over to which Razio rein acts her footsteps to show his freedom for the first time, as he looks at the scenery, he smiles, and roll the credits.

LINK TO FILM TRAILER

Contains violence and blood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhYH26KTNbQ