Fisher King Film questions
Q1.Which character represents the Fisher King? Explain
Answer: The character of Fisher king of famous Holy Grailof Arthurian literature in the movie is represented by Jack Lucas in the film “The Fisher King”. Jack Lucas gets into the estate of mind where he obsessed with the character of Fisher king. Similar situations faced by the Fisher king in the literature and stories faced by the Jack Lucas in the film too.
Q2. Which character represents Percival? Explain
Answer: Parry represents the character of Percival in the film who was the companion of Fisher king in the stories of Arthurian literature. The similar situations and challenges faced by Percival in finding his loves faced by Parry in the film to find and save his wife.
Q3. What was the "Call to adventure" for Jack Lucas? Does he refuse or accept the call? Explain.
Answer: While attempting suicide he got attacked by few thugs but rescued by Parry. When mislead Parry tries to convince Jack to help him in finding the Holy Grail he hesitantly denied the offer but soon Jack comes to know that Parry’s wife got killed because of his irresponsible behaviour while working as a radio host, he got ready to help Parry to find the Holy Grail. The call for adventure for Jack Lucas was to help a person whose life suined because his own irresponsible behaviour.
Q4.What character represents the "Meeting with the goddess"?
Answer: In the movie character of Anne represent the “Meeting with the goddess”.
Q5. What is the temptation that Jack Lucas succumbs to?
Answer: To help parry in finding his love again tempted Jack Lucas to surrender himself and also to wash his sin he did while working in radio.
Q6. How is Jack Lucas changed in the end?
Answer: By helping Parry to get into normal life and to come out from the state of mental illness changed the behaviour of Jack Lucas.
7. How is Parry changed in the end?
Answer: Parry changed in the end when he find his love in Lydia and get out of the mental illness when he got Grail from Jack.
