Prompt:
1. Identify the principal action (the physical and emotional goal of principle character throughout the script), and DESCRIBE the obstacles, both internal and external obstacles faced by the main character.
2. How do the characters, story and style of the film reflect the film’s genre and place in film history?
3. Make a clear statement of the theme of the movie, and describe how the characters and story of the film act as a metaphor or culture artifact of the social, cultural and/or historical time period that the film was produced?

Some tips:
1. Choose any one American film from 1930s to 1970s to analysis. Please exclude the following movies: It happens one night, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Stagecoach, Double Indemnity, Strangers on A Train, North by Northwest, Blackboard Jungle, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dr. Strange love, Easy Rider, Rear Window, The Godfather, Night of the Living Dead, Psycho.
2. The paper should be written in the first person, and the order of the paper should following the sequence of 1 to 3 requirements points in the prompt.
3. Please let me know which film you choose to write. Thank you so much.