Purpose and Themes of Main Roles

In my film, although there is little exposure of characters in my trailer, I sought to challenge the representation of age and women, with Grace featuring in both these catergories.
I am now going to lay-out my ideas behind each main character, with the themes and semiology behind them:

 

 

Grace:

• Grace is a dominant character, which is replicated in her children. Although she is in her 80s, she is passionate, expressive and a champion of her own views. She lives in a slightly cluttered environment, going against the neat, tidy elderly female stereotype.
• With Grace's diagnosis she goes through an epiphanetic moement, with her life showing to be somewhat futile.
• Her relationships, both with her family and with Diana, are exceptionally diverse, being fluid throughout the film. Her behaviour has set her apart from friends, but with Diana's arrival she is shown to become more friendly and open.
• Challeging Sterotype: In this character, I envisaged her to be a loud extravert character, going against the quiet, intravertness that apparently comes with age.

Diana:

• Diana is a somewhat submissive character, with her personailty being very different from Grace. With her age being around 26, she is exceptionally young, but also very secretive about her own background. As Grace begins to reflect on the tings that had happened to her in her life, both bad and good, it is seen that Diana is taking Grace's reflections as advise to herself.
• When the romance between Diana and Richard develops, it is shown that Diana becomes much less internal, and so develops as a character, whilst remaining somewhat opposite of Grace's blunt personality.
• Challenging Stereotype: I created Diana with the purpose of contrasting Grace, and so is the opposite of the typical young adult sterotype, with her personality being intravert and shy.

Sophie:

• Sophie is an exceptionally elitest, and also somewhat selfish, with her patronising treatment of her mother introducing Diana to Grace. At her age in the early thirties, Sophie is at the peak of her career in Real Estate, with her 'American Dream' marriage breaking down behind the scenes of the storyline. 
• Her personality is robust, grating and egotistic in the early stages of the film, with her being portrayed at the Antagonist in the first half of the film. 
• As she moves to divorce her husband she is revealed to be paranoid and nervous, and also much more like Diana. 

Richard:

• Richard, unlike his sister Sophie, is an exceptionally kind and caring individual; being the opposite of the caring of Grace. His age is in the late twenties, with his life being less career oriantated than Sophie. 
• Richard enters into the film as he returns from travelling in Hong Kong, with his life being unplanned and free. He is exceptionally artistic, with his appearance reflecting a somewhat disorganised personna.

The main roles are three-quarters female, but if I were to go on to create the remainder of the film, Grace's 'flashbacks' will contain various roles which are not contained in this list.