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ON THE WATERFRONT analysis

Word process your answers into this document, print, and submit on 9/8/04

Answer the following questions for each of the following characters in the film:

TERRY MALLOY

EDIE DOYLE

FATHER BARRY

CHARLIE MALLOY

JOHNNY FRIENDLY

1. What are the character’s values?
2. Where is he/she vulnerable? How can he/she be hurt?
3. Whom or what does the character trust?
4. Look for ways he/she makes mistakes.
5. What “drives” this character forward in the action? What do they want? Think in terms of basic motivational needs (Maslow’s Heirarchy)
6. How does the character change from the beginning of the story until the end?
7. Identify 3 physical non-verbal examples in the scenario of where the actor is able to illustrate any of the above.

Read the script for this film here.