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Amelie Plot Segmentation part 2

1. Amelie's birth

A blue bottle fly lands on Rue St. Vincent, Montmartre

Two glasses are shaking in the wind on a nearby restaurant's terrace.

Fifth floor flat on Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, Eugene Colere erases his late best friend from his address book.

Amelie is conceived.

Amelie is born nine months later.

2. Amelie's father

Her father works at a spa in Enghien.

Her father pees next to someone he dislikes in bathroom.

Father at Train station: judging sandals

Father at the pool, clingy wet swim trunks

Father peeling wallpaper in house.

Lining up and shining his shoes at house.

emptying, cleaning, and re-organizing his tool box in workshop.

3. Amelie's mother

Mother is a schoolmaster in Gueugnon.

Bath puckered fingers

hands touched by a stranger in the open market

sleeping in her bed resulting in pillow marks on her face

watching figure skating at home

polishing the parquet at home

emptying her purse, cleaing it, and re-organizing it at home

4. Amelie's childhood home

At six, she has monthly checkups by her doctor father.

Her heart thumps irregularly, because she's not used to her father showing affection or touching her.

schooled at home, because her father believes she has a heart defect.

Amelie plays at home with only her imagination.

The neighbor's wife is in a coma in her house and Amelie imagines her waking to say that she can now stay

only friend is Blubber the fish jumps from his bowl and ends up under the washing machine and her parent's panic trying to rescue him as Amelie screams.

They release blubber into the wild to calm her mother's nerves

Amelie takes pictures with a new camera outside the house.

The neighbor makes her believe she caused accidents with her camera and she is wracked with guilt while watching the news in her home

realizing his lie, Amelie gets revenge by sitting on his roof and pulling his tv cable at important moments during a football match

5. Notre Dame and the results

Amelie goes with her mother to Notre Dame to pray for a little brother to be born.

Amelie and her mother step outside.

A woman name Marguerite jumps from the churches roof.

Amelie's mother dies tragically as the woman falls on her in front of Amelie.

Father becomes increasingly anti-social, locked up in the house, builds a shrine to his wife in the front yard of their house.

6. Amelie goes a the Two Windmills

She finally leaves home five years after her mother's death and becomes a waitress at Montmartre at Two Windmills.

Boss watches Athletes cry on tv

Boss watches man being humiliated in front of his child in the restaurant.

Georgette, the tobacconist and hypochondriac sits behind the counter and sprays medicine into her mouth.

Gina cracks her fingers and brings food to Hipiloto.

Joseph spies on Gina and pops bubble wrap under the table.

Philomene the flight attendent comes to the restaurant toting her cat with her to give to Amelie to take care of.

7. Amelie's routine

Amelie goes to the train station and offers a homeless man some money which he declines.

Amelie visits her father.

Amelie goes to watch a movie in a theater and looks around at people's faces.

She watches looks for small details in the movies.

Amelie tries having sex and is disappointed in her bedroom.

She dips her hand in a bag of grain at the market.

She cracks a creme brulee at her apartment.

She skims rocks on St. Martin's Canal

She watches an reclusive artist called the Glass man from her apartment window.

Amelie watches from the roof and wonders how many couples are having orgasms below.

8. Amelie breaks routine

Amelie learns about Princess Diana's death on the tv in her apartment and drops the ball she was holding.

It rolls to reveal a hidden hole in which she finds a box of treasures placed by a boy forty years ago.

Amelie lays in her bed one morning and decides to bring the box back to the boy.

Amelie goes to her neighbor's flat to inquire about the boy and drinks port with her.

Her neighbor talks about her life instead describing her husband's affair and death.

She goes to ask the grocer about it and gets annoyed when he insults his worker.

9. Bredoteau

She goes to the grocer's mother's house and finds out from her the name of the man, Bredoteau.

She travels in the train station and hears the singing coming from the record player of an old blind man and leaves money for him.

Nino is meanwhile digging under a photobooth for something.

Goes to see her father at her old house and helps him build more on the shrine.

She goes to work at the restaurant, where the workers are bickering.

Amelie looks up Bredoteau's name in a phonebook and leaves work early to go to his house finding a young man there instead.

She quickly leaves on the train and goes to another D. Bredoteau's house to find a woman there hitting on her.

Another house, she finds a funeral.

10. Bretodeau

The Glass man opens his door as she's walking up the stairs and informs her that she has the wrong name. Bretodeau instead of Bredoteau and she follows him into his flat to learn more and he shows her his paintings and tells her the address of Dominique Bretodeau.

Bretodeau buys chicken in the open market and cooks it at his apartment.

Betodeau stops a phonebooth, picks up the phone, and finds the box that Amelie leaves for him.

He has a flashback of his life and sets him to tears.

Amelie and Bretodeau sit next to each other in a bar as he talks to her about his life, not realizing she left the box for him.

He decides he will visit his estrange daughter and meet his grandson.

In the open market, she meets the blind man and takes him for a walk describing the world around them to him to help him see the things around them.

11. Amelie's mission

In her apartment, she sees the glass man drinking and then watches a documentary about Amelie Poulain as if it was herself on the tv, making her want to make it her mission to help others.

Amelie goes to her father's house and steals the gnome he has on the shrine for her mother.

Amelie sleeps in the photobooth of the train station.

Amelie finds Nino in the train station once again and chases him out as he chases another man.

She finds a suitcase that he drops and sits on the train stations steps finding an album full of id photos.

A woman tries to buy cigarettes in the restaurant and ends up leaving in huff at Georgette's attitude.

Amelie convinces Gina's ex-boyfriend that Georgette is actually in love with him.

She attempts vice-versa with Georgette.

She tells a newspaper woman outside that he is now in love with Georgette and spreads the rumor.

12. Glass Man's plight

Amelie shows the photo albulm that Nino dropped to the glass man and discusses the painting he's working on in relationship to herself.

The Glass man tries to get her to start thinking more of her self.

She finds herself fascinated by the albulm and stays up to study it more.

She wakes up with the tv on and records a cycle race.

Amelie heads down the stairs and put something under The Glass Man's mat.

13. Revenge for Lucien part 1

She brings grocer his keys that he left in his door.

She gets offended when he is again cruel to his assistant.

She goes to a shop to get a copy of the keys and then leaves the original set hanging out his door the way she found it.

14. Two Windmills developments

Georgette buys a newspaper and the newsstand woman confuses her further with her telling words about love.

Amelie goes to the cafe.

The novelist's 30th book has been rejected.

Georgette and the ex keep glancing at each other, their eyes meeting on accident.

15. Revenge for Lucien part 2

Amelie sees the grocer being cruel to his employee again and breaks into his apartment.

She cuts up his shoe strings.

She switches his foot cream and tooth paste.

She switches his doorknobs around.

She pours salt in his whisky.

The glass man watches from the window.

She messes with his alarm clock.

It cuts to a scene of her dressed as Zorro and she marks his door with a Z.

Amelie gets reads on the train on the way to see her father.

16. Helping her father

While talking to her father, she tries to tell him that she's feeling different and better.

He doesn't seem to be paying attention.

She asks him about the missing gnome.

Her father pulls out a picture of the gnome in Moscow and Amelie says he must want to travel the world.

17. Nino

At the train station, Amelie finds a note from Nino asking for the return of his photo album.

She takes the note back to her apartment.

She falls asleep and the portraits on her wall and the pig figurine on her lamp come to life saying she has fallen in love.

18. Revenge for Lucien part 3

In his apartment, the grocer wakes at 4 am the time she set his alarm.

He has trouble opening his bathroom door, because of the different doorknob.

He puts the toothbrush with the foot cream in his mouth and screams.

He goes to open the store.

At the store, Lucien, the assistant, is running the show, while the grocer is asleep in the cauliflower.

19. At Two Windmills

At the dinner, the ex buys a lotto ticket from Georgette.

They talk nervously with each other.

Amelie calls the number on Nilo's sign and gets a porno line instead.

She quickly hangs up.

20. Lucien at Glass man's apartment

Lucien comes to the Glass man's apartment bringing his order from the grocery store.

He pulls the objects apart to reveal something else inside all of them, like champagne and caviar.

Lucien hands him a tape that Amelie had slipped there.

The glass man views the tape after Lucien leaves to find random recordings of people cycling, people on horses, a man flipping around with a dog, and a woman singing jazzy gospel in English.

21. Georgette and Joseph at Two Windmills

At the cafe, Georgette and the ex are playing a lot of lotto tickets.

The leans over and tells her that she's beautiful when she blushes.

He quickly gets up to go the restroom.

Amelie takes the chance to spill coffee on Georgette, making her get up to go to the restroom in a fuss.

Georgette runs into him in the restroom and they start to have sex.

They make such a ruckus that the whole building shakes and Amelie has to turn on the coffee makers to attempt to cover it up.

22. The Porn shop

Amelie goes to the porn shop she got on the phone with the album.

She meets a woman that knows Nino and learns about him.

The woman offers to take it, but says that she'll just bring it to him at his other job at the funfair.

23. Funfair

In order to see him, she has to go into a ride that he works in.

He comes up to her dressed as a skeleton and groans at her.

23. Nino finds a clue

She doesn't give the album back and leaves one of the photos on his bike with a note on the back detailing a meeting spot and for him to bring 5 francs.

Nino lays down at his apartment and hangs the photo up.

The photo starts talking to him and asking him if he wants to know about the woman who had the album.

He says yes, but the photo just confuses him.

Nino flops back on the bed disappointed, but the man in the photo gets his attention once more to let him know that Amelie is in love with him.

Nino is even more confused and says he does not even know her, while the photo replies that he knows her in his dreams.

24. Nino falls into Amelie's trap

At the meeting place, Nino receives a phone call from Amelie telling him to follow the arrows.

He sees a bunch of blue chalk arrows and follows them to a man dressed as a statue pointing up.

A kid tells him that he looks foolish and he turns to see the binoculars the statue is pointing to.

Through them he sees Amelie in disguise, putting up his album.

He runs to catch her.

He misses her and receives a phone call from her and she cryptically answers all his questions, directing him to a page in his album with her photo of her dressed silly.

25. Amelie's plans come together.

Amelie's father receives more photos of the gnome in different locations.

Amelie at her apartment building takes some envelopes and sneaks out.

Everyone is cheerful at the cafe.

The ex and Georgette share knowing glances.

The ex reads a news story and Georgette answers happily.

The rest of the staff notice that she's not been complaining about her health and make offsided comments about love being her new disease.

26. Nino's mystery woman

At the porn shop, Nino speaks with the woman Amelie met and inquires about her.

She can't remember much about her.

Nino states that it's a mystery he wants to solve.

27. Revenge for Lucien part 4

At the market, Amelie sees the grocer being cruel to Lucien once again.

Amelie stares at a drain and imagines a man popping up to whisper a comeback for her to say at the Grocer.

All the woman laugh when she says it.

She once again breaks into his apartment and messes with things.

The Glass man watches.

28. Letter to the landlady

Amelie reads the letters she took, they're all love letters for the landlady from her ex-husband.

Amelie takes a letter and cuts it up to reassemble it as a letter sent from him to the landlady.

With her spy glass, she watches the glass man paint.

The glass man turns around and looks after she left the window to see the letter hanging to dry.

29. Revenge for Lucien part 4

The grocer returns home and tries to put on his house shoes, but they are too small.

He tries to plug in the lamp that is lit even though it is unplugged and it sparks, nearly electrocuting him.

He tries to call his mom and the phone directs him to a psychiatrist help line instead.

He tries to drink his whiskey, but soon spits it out tasting the burn of the salt in it.

30. Amelie's plan shapes up.

Amelie finds a poster at the train station that says when and where.

Amelie goes to a costume shop and purchases a costume.

At the same time, a man leaves his home.

A little over 20 minutes later Amelie takes photos of herself in the photo booth in a Zorro costume.

The man walks to the photo booth while she is taking photos.

She opens the curtain to find the man that's photo is most prevalent in Nino's album.

31. Amelie helps the landlady.

The landlady receives the letter Amelie has concocted.

The letter reads that they recovered her late husbands body from his plane crash and that the love letter that Amelie made is from him.

It says that he regrets cheating on her and plans to leave the woman to come back to her if he should survive.

The landlady cries happily and cleans off her husbands old photo on her wall.

32. Lucien gets art lessons in the glass man's apartment.

Lucien delivers groceries to the glass man again bringing another package from Amelie that he found.

Lucien tells the glass man about the letter the landlady received.

The Glass man gives Lucien lessons in painting.

The glass man gets upset at him and ends up yelling.

Lucien leaves.

The glassman watches the video Amelie made him and it contains a recording of babies swimming in a pool and a man dancing with a stick leg.

He sees Amelie from the window picking up her cat.

33. The gnome returns.

Amelie's father receives another photo with the gnome in a different location.

The stewardess returns the gnome to Amelie.

32. Nino's search widens.

Nino hangs the posters asking for when and where at a local super market

and gets caught by a worker digging in the trash.

Nino hangs posters at the photobooth.

He digs under it to find shredded photos and finds a the picture Amelie in the Zorro mask.

At the porn shop, he assembles it and she's holding a sign that says to meet her at the The Two Windmills Cafe at four.

He calls Eva, the woman he works with, to cover for him at four.

33. Meeting at Two Windmills

The ex is jealous that Georgette smiles around other men.

Amelie is worried, because Nino is late.

She imagines a scenario where Nino is unable to put the photo back together, because a group of bankrobbers take him hostage.

They speed off and avoid the cops.

Nino makes the car crash and hits his head.

He loses his memory.

An ex-con picks him up and mistakes him for a fugitive, so he helps him get out of the country to Instanbul.

He meets some Afghan raiders in Istanbul and they take him hostage to steal some Russian warheads.

The Russian truck hits a mine in Tadzhikstan.

Nino escapes, takes to the hills, and becomes a Mujaheddin.

Nino arrives at the cafe and Amelie busies herself.

Nino orders a coffee, while Amelie watches him from a mirror.

He sees a woman walk in and waits expectantly, but she is here to see someone else.

Amelie watches him from a window behind his booth, rearranging salt shakers.

He turns and sees her and she takes a maker and begins writing on the window with a marker like she is putting up the menu.

He turns away and then turns back producing the photo.

He asks if it's her and she shakes her head.

He asks again almost sure it's her and she again refuses.

She rushes to the back of the store and has the waitress slip in Nino's pocket.

Nino leaves and Amelie suddenly melts into a puddle of water.

34. Glass man tries to give Amelie the push.

In the glass man's apartment, Amelie discusses the painting he's still having trouble with.

Using the woman as a metaphor for Amelie, the glass man calls her cowardly.

Upset, Amelie watches a movie that's dialogue seems to be talking to her, saying that it's fine to keep living in a dream.

She goes to skip stones in the canal.

The glass man records Lucien with his camera to ask him if he keeps keys to all the apartments for deliveries.

Amelie purposefully jams the photo booth at the station and calls the company about it.

35. Amelie solves a mystery and loses her nerve.

At the porn shop, Nino knocks on the peep show and asks if the worker will stand in for him, so he can try and meet her again at the cafe.

He pulls the piece of paper to write to her a note and finds the note the waitress had slipped him from Amelie.

He goes to the station at the booth to find the man from the photos that Amelie had discovered repairing the photobooth and solving the mystery.

Amelie walks towards Nino resolved only to turn away.

Once she turns back he's already gone.

36. Nino tries again at the Two Windmills Cafe and trouble follows.

Nino goes to the cafe and inquirers about the note.

Gina agrees to talk to him at six.

The ex is starting to act like a jealous lover again only towards Georgette.

Georgette gets upset and goes home.

The novelist and the boss yells at the ex.

The novelist and the ex get in a fight.

Amelie shows up to the cafe and finds out that Nino has been there to talk to Gina.

37. Gina tests Nino.

Gina walks with him and quizzes him on sayings.

She says she wants to make sure she's sane.

He gets them all right and she accepts him as being not all that bad.

38. Amelie has a meltdown.

Amelie returns and the landlady raves about miracles and the letter saying that a pretty woman had shown up upstairs.

Amelie finds the when and where posters in her apartment.

She states baking and has an image show up in her head of Nino buying yeast for her and showing up at her apartment.

At the same time he rattles the beads, she hears the actual beads rattle and turns shocked to find only Philomene's cat.

She begins to cry.

39. Nino comes to Amelie's apartment.

The doorbell rings and she goes to answer it, but doesn't when she hears Nino's voice.

She places her head against the door as he calls out for her.

He slides a note under the door that says he'll be back.

Amelie watches him leave through the window.

40. Amelie finds her courage (with a little help from her friends.)

The phone rings and she picks it up to a voice asking her to go to the bedroom.

She goes in to find a video queued up for her.

She watches the video of the glass man telling her to go get Nino.

Amelie runs to the door and opens it to find him standing there.

She drags him in by the collar and kisses him on the cheek without speaking.

Neither of them speak for a long moment, only making motions.

Nino kisses her back.

The cat watches.

They have sex.

The glass man spies them through binoculars.

He catches Lucien recording them with the camera and yells at him.

Lucien lets the camera droop to the painting supplies instead.

The Conclusion

Hipolito, the novelist, finds a quote from him graffiti on a wall and leaves with a skip in his step.

An old man feeds a little boy in the courtyard.

The glass man finally works on a new painting.

Amelie's father hails a cab to the international airport.

At the funfair, the marshmallow twister is making the marshmallows.

Felix reads about his brain in Villete park.

At the Sacre Coeur, the nuns are practicing backhand.

Amelie and Nino ride through the town on his motorbike.

#assignments #oops forgot this was in my drafts and that I didn't post it yet

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subtextualicewater · 12 years ago

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Film Log #7: Waitress

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Director: Adrienne Shelly

Writer: Adrienne Shelly

Basic Plot:

Waitress is a movie about a woman stuck in an abusive relationship that is constantly planning her escape, only to find herself pregnant after her husband got her drunk one night. Jenna (Keri Russell) lives in the deep south and works hard as a waitress and pie maker in Joe's Pie Cafe. She's doing her best to collect enough money to leave her abusive and controlling husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto), but a surprise pregnancy complicates things. As she's trying to cope with the pregnancy, she tries to hide it from her husband and goes on with her normal stress-filled life in which everyone depends on her. Joe (Andy Griffith), the grouchy owner of the diner, comes in to bother her constantly and soon finds out about the pregnancy. He becomes fond of her throughout the film and helps her through many of her problems, though he complains and puts on a very tough front along the way. Her two friends and fellow waitresses know of her problems, but don't offer much help much though Jenna continues to sacrifice in order to help them. Soon, Jenna falls into an affair with her obgyn doctor Jim Pomatter (Nathan Fillion). This complicates things further as she's now riddled with guilty feelings, even though she's still planning on escaping Earl's grasps by participating in a pie contest to get the $25,000 reward. The weekend of the contest she packs her bags to go and heads to the bus stop, but Earl finds her and forces her into the car with him. He hits her and yells at her. Jenna gets scared and is forced to tell him she's pregnant. At home, Earl is still upset, but now because he believes she will love the baby more than she loves him and she does so to appease him. Meanwhile, her relationship with the doctor is heating up and she soon looses herself in the relationship even though as she soon finds he is also married. The doctor gives her a gold pie pan at one of her visits as a gift and she cries as she's never received anything like it. Earl soon finds it along with the money she's hidden in random places to use when she runs away from him. He cries and clings to her and she is forced to make up another story. She claims she was saving up the money to by the baby a crib and he believes her and laughs it off. Soon they spend all of the money she had saved up on a crib. In a moment of panic and absolute despair, she shows up at a doctor's appointment and tries to get him to save her. He tells her to get dressed and wait outside. They make plans to run. While sitting outside, her water breaks and he's forced to drive her to the hospital instead. During which Earl shows up and annoys her as she's having the child. She also sees the doctor's wife who is working as a resident in the hospital for the first time. After having the baby, she looks at it for a long time and falls in love with it. Earl pulls her out of it and reminds her of the promise. She blows him off plainly stating that she never loved him and he gets violent and throws a tantrum. She pays him no mind as he's escorted from the room by the staff. Without money to stay, she leaves the hospital to sray with her friends for a while bringing her new daughter Loulou home and telling the doctor that their relationship should end before they hurt the people around them. She soon learns that old Joe from the dinner has died and pulls the card she received from him before she had the baby. She found a check for $50,000 in it and is floored. She uses the money to open her own pay shop and take care of her daughter.

When and where?

Friday, March 8th, Conway DYSC meeting

Why did you choose this film?

I watched this film at a community group meeting for International Woman's day. We wanted to watch a film that was solely about a woman that was dealing with every day troubles and about finding the strength to overcome them.

What did you like about the film?

I enjoyed that it was all about one woman and it didn't shift its focus. It showed her thoughts and feelings in really clever ways through narration and the use of pie visuals. Pie. Pie is good. The movie was funny, but still serious because of the subject matter it was dealing with. It made a nice contrast. Nathan Fillion being in it definitely did not hinder it. I like that it ended in a nontraditional way, but not on a sour note. It was a film that actually made you root for the main character.

What didn’t you like about the film?

It was slow at parts and the characters besides Jenna seemed a little cheesy and not well formed really. More of a commentary than anything, I was a little worried about the way the obgyn was kind of rough with a very pregnant women at points if you know what I mean.

Would you recommend it?

I would recommend it. It's a movie that is funny, but about very serious subject matter. The abuse was well represented and in that way could be a help in really identifying with it. It brings awareness without being too risque and is overall just really human. It features someone far from perfect or even likable at some points, but still gets you to root for her none the less.

#film log

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