Propp's Narrative Theory

'Propp's narrative theory can also be applied to "LTROI". He said that every character in a story could be put into one of 8 broad character types:

1. The villain— struggles against the hero.
2. The donor— prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
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 dispatcher — character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
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.'

Source - http://owa.st-thomasmore.org.uk/users/06WatsonM/weblog/67d1e/

The Propp's Narrative Theory does not apply in various of elements of our film like the Todorov theory does. Marcus is not prsented as a hero in our film but Denzel and Katrina are presented as the villains. There is no characters in the film that are presented in the film as the helper, false hero, princess or donor. It also does not apply to our film because it is based on real life situations in London so to make it more realistic, we decided not adopt the Propp's Narrative Theory.