Vladimir Propp's theory in 'The Beach'

The film i have chosen to apply Vladdimir Propp's theory to is 'The Beach'.  Vladimir Propp believes that the characters in a film can be broken down into 8 types and from this i have found most of them can be shown in 'The Beach'.

The film is about a backpacker named Richard who is willing to risk his life for just the mind blowing rush you can get only from braving the ultimate adventure.  But on a secret, deceptivly perfect beach, he soon discovers that as the level of intensity rises and the stakes climb higher, desire grows stronger... and danger grows deeper.


The 8 character roles:
 The first of these is the Hero who is in the film, Richard, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, he is the main character and can be shown as the hero as he is the one who gets the two people he is travelling with to the island and beach and is the one who leads the way, also, he encounters a shark attack and manages to kill the shark and shares the story to everyone and tey think of him as a hero for doing this.
There is also the donor, who in the film is Daffy, played by Robert Carlyle, he is the one who gives Richard the map to find the beach and without the map, Richard would not have known about the beach and the film would not have gone anywere and so Daffy as well as being the donor can be seen as The dispatcher who is the one who Vladimir Propp describes as the character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
There is also the helper who in the film is Étienne, a Frenchman who Richard meets in thailand played by Guillaume Canet, Richard  manages to convince him and his girlfriend to travel with him to the beach, and along the way they help each other out and so he can be seen as the helper.
There is the Princess who in the film is Françoise, played by Virginie Ledoyen who is the girlfriend of Étienne, and Vladimir Propp describes the Princess partly as the one who the hero deserves thoughout the story, and the hero (Richard) gets her to leave Étienne and be with him after they reach the beach, as Étienne finds out about them having sex.
There is then the Villain(s) who can be shown in the film as a few people, firstly there are Marajuana farmers on the island who will and do kill people who tresspass on the farms, which are on another part of the island and say that no more can join the community of people like Richard who have travelled to the beach and are living there.  Another person who could be seen as the villain is Sal, played by Tilda Swinton, and she is the leader of the community living by the beach and towards the end of the film she is given a gun by the leader of the marajuana farmers, to kill Richard as she thinks he has betrayed them by giving away another map to some teenagers who came to the beach and were killed by the farmers, and she pulls the trigger when pointing the gun at Richards face, however there is no bullet inside and so this can portray her as the Villain because if the gun was loaded she would have shot Richard.


The two other character roles in Vladimir's theory are a false hero, which i couldn't really apply to anyone in the film as Vladimir describes this person to be the one who takes credit for something the hero has done, and nothing like this occured in the film.  The second of the two was the princess' father, which in the film there is no father and so i could not apply this. 


Having been able to apply 6 of the 8 character roles of Vladimir's theory i think that the film i chose was one which Vladimir's theory would work quite well for.