Story Development

It is fairly easy to determine the reason that playwrites give to using 3 act structures in their play. It acts as a comfotable divide for "beginning, middle, end" and is also useful for establishing whether the protagonist (which are generally a staple ingredient to the 3 act play) has entered the establishment of the first equalibrium, the crisis, or the resolution.

(Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer)

I take for example Wes Anderson's "Rushmore" (1998), whose character Max Fischer is knighted as our protagonist. The beginning of the film establishes Max's current status in the elite school Rushmore, where although he is an enthusiastic pupil participating in an array of extra curricular activities, he is failing academically. The element of "crisis" for Max is potential explusion from the school combined with not only his unsucessful seduction of first grade teacher Rosemary, but her apparent affair with Herman Blume, Max's close friend.
This second catalyst is what ultimately leads to his explusion from the school and thrown into the slumberland of a comprehensive high school. This decline is stil not enough to distract him from his revenge against Herman until he his arrest for his actions against Herman and he has left school completely. It is from this moment that our flawed heroine begins to redeem himself. By realising that he will never be able to win Rosemary's affections he liberates himself by writing a play to create a new equalibruim between himself and the other characters.

Much of Rushmore's is determined plot is determined by the externilisation of the character's internal emotions. The development of Max's relationships between Herman and Rosemary is what sets the direction of the plot and it is only until Max understands he will never have a romantic relationship with Rosemary that he grows emotionally.

Character design

Father Jack Hackett (Father Ted)

APPEARANCE

Rough and unhygenic

Considered lazy as usually is slouched in his chair and/or asleep

Most likely younger than his apppearance but appears older due to life style of smoking and heavily drinking

Stereotypical angry drunk

ACTION OF CHARACTER

Antagonist: cause of the majority of conflicts that Father Ted deals with

Self centered nature, his character is simplified to stereotype and avoids backround history to focus this

To drink

INERACTION WITH OTHER CHARACTERS AND EVENTS OF THE STORY

Jack's contribution to events usually occur accidently as he is unwilling unable to contribute due to his unsociable nature and drunken state. Whenever he does contribute it is purely accidental. For example: 1. Jack has adopted a brick as a pet which he leaves lying on the floor for Ted to trip over which gives Ted the idea of using it as a weight to use on the milkfloat peddle to save Dougal from being blown up.

2. Jack's consumption of "toilet duck" leaves him in in a near unconsious state which gives solves Ted's crisis of them all wanting to dress up as Elvis for the fancy dress competition. Jack's near paralytic state is disguised as Elvis's "final chapter of life" in order for them to win the competition with "The three stages of Elvis"

Image source

http://rushmoreacademy.com/2008/06/21/rushmore-an-entertainment-weekly-new-classic
http://tweeandtoast.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archieve.html