Post 6: Simulacra

Assignment: Think of a movie that follows the structure of the simulacra

Movie: She's The Man

1) Normal Life Before Adventure
- Viola is one of the star soccer players on the girls soccer team at her high school, Cornwall. 
2) Catalyst
- The girls soccer team gets cut, so Viola wants to join Cornwall's boys soccer team but they would not accept her. Viola decides to have a makeover and impersonate her twin brother, who is away in London, and enter Illyria as a new student and join their boys soccer team. 
3) Reluctance
- Viola doubts that everyone will believe she is a boy and thinks everyone will think she is unpopular.
4) Help 
- Viola's friend Paul, who did the make over and the support of her friends Kia and Yvonne.
5) Crossing theThreshold
- Viola goes through the make over to impersonate her brother and moves into his new dorm at Illyria.
6) First Obstacles
- Viola (impersonating Sebastien) is not popular and her room mates think Sebastien is weird. 
7) Rock Bottom
- Viola doesn't make first string for the soccer game, she is falling in love with her room mate Luke, who is in love with Viola's lab partner Olivia, who has a crush on Viola (impersonating her brother Sebastien) 
8) Rising Above
- She practices with the help of her room mate and her hard work pays off as she is now first string for the Cornwall game. Viola uses her friends to make her alter ego seem popular and it works. 
9) Close to Victory
- The truth is revealed that Viola is impersonating her brother Sebastien while the soccer game against Illyria is going on. 
10) Resolution
- The coach allows Viola to continue playing and they end up winning the game. As the movie ends, Viola is seen playing on the Illyria soccer team as herself.