'Blades of Glory' analysis

Genre


The film Blades of Glory is a comedy about ice skating, more specifically about two characters, Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy. These two binary opposites are forced to work together as a doubles team as they were banned from singles skating for having a fight.


Characters
Hero: This film unconventionally features two heroes, pairs figure skaters Chazz and Jimmy. In most respects however, Jimmy is more the hero character.


Villain: Stranz Van Waldenberg and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, reigning national champions and brother and sister team, they will stop at nothing to win.


Princess: Katie Van Waldenberg, Jimmy's love intrest and the neglected sister of the villains.


Helper: Coach Robert, who helps unite the pair of heroes and teaches the two how to skate as a pair


Donor: Hector, Jimmy's stalker, who tells Jimmy that his lifetime skating ban is not complete and a loophole allows him to compete as a member of a pair.


Narrative


Equilibrium: Chazz and Jimmy compete in the world winter sports games, each in the singles competition and are awarded joint first place.


Disruption: The pair fight on the podium and are banned for life from figure skating. Jimmy is 'un-adopted' by his adoptive father and ends up, three and a half years later, working in a skating shoe store, getting in trouble and sent to wrok in the storeroom. Chazz is part of a skating play and is fired for performing drunk. There is a false resolution as it is revealed that Jimmy could perform as half of a pair. This is swiftly crushed as he has to work with Chazz and the two squabble at first.


Resolution: They qualify for the next world winter sports games and after Stranz and Fairchild try to stop them competing by kidnapping them.  They perform a move that, on the only other attempt in history, ended up decapitating the female of the pair, win the competition and see Stranz and Fairchild get arrested. The film ends with them flying away using the rockets in their skates.


Which is perfectly normal.