The Purple Rose of Cairo

Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition:

The main character and setting is defined. Cecilia is a daydreamer waitress who loves to watch movies at the cinema so she can escape from her life. She is married to Monk wich is a terrible husband, who doesn´t care and don´t love her. 

At the tonwn´s cinema, the movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is shown. So Cecilia watches the movie.

Inciting Moment

When Cecilia returns to her house, she sees her husband and a girl in the house. Cecilia decides to go away from home. Because Cecile is disappointed, she decides to watch the movie again so she can forget about her problems.

While watching the movie, Tom Baxter a character from the movie jumps out of the screen to talk to Cecilia.

Rising action

Tom Baxter is in love with Cecilia, so he decides to escape from the movie and starts dating Cecilia.

The movie is a chaos, and also the producer and Gil Shepherd (the actor that wasTom Baxter in the movie)  are involved in the case. They try to have a solution so the problem could be solved.

Complication

Gil in his search for his own creation (Tom) finds Cecilia. So finally Gil knows where Tom is.

Climax

Gil and Tom see each other. As a result they begin to fight about what was real and what was the best thing to do in this case.

Reversal

Tom wants to be real so he could love Cecilia in all aspects. Cecilia shows Tom the "real life".

Falling action

Cecilia is discovered by his husband, causing her problems and a fight between Tom and Monk. Also she begans to be a good friend of Gil.

 Tom begins to experience what life is, he accidentally gets into a date house, so he discovers another panorama of life.

Catastrophe

Gil and Cecilia fall in love.

Moment of Last Suspense

Cecilia is confused, Tom the fiction and Gil the reality are in love of her. And also she loves both. She needs to decide who she will love.

Denouement

Cecilia decides to be with Gil, because he is something that is real. So she will go with him to Hollywood.

But at last, Gil decides to go alone and leave Cecilia

So Cecilia tries to forget about all her pain in the movies again.