Willow
...ther in the presence of witnesses. In the beginning of the movie, during a town meeting, the baby Elora is presented to the sorcerer. The sorcerer proceeds to ask whether Willow has any love for the child, which he then admits to having. This public admission of feelings of wanting to care for the child shows a bonding between Willow and the baby he found a few days earlier. In the beginning, Willow was weary of the child when he first found her, however after seeing the child react to him and his family, he grew a form of attachment and genuine love for this child he was to protect. By letting everyone else in his village see this as well, there was a common knowledge among the group that Willow cared for and shared a bond with baby Elora. The second form of interpersonal communication I picked up on throughout the move was integrating. Integrating is defined as parties taking an identity as a relationship grows in intensity. I applied this to the army of the evil queen. All of the soldiers believed in a common goal or idea therefore bending them as a massive group. They take on an identity of an army through this process and as they accomplish their goals together their relationship strengthen making them an effective and powerful army. Integrating also involves a certain sense of obligation for the others involved. In the case of the queen’s army this is very true because anyone not agreeing would be exiled as in the case of the warrior who befriended Willow. The integration element is also described as a point where personal characteristics are given up and individuals may change. In an army this definitely would hold up due to the fact that an army must be disciplined and personal ideals must be compromised in order to follow orders from a leader as in the case of the evil queen. The next characteristic of interpersonal communication examined was stereotyping. Stereotyping is a way of classifying certain groups of people based on exaggerated or false ideas. In Willow a clear and evident stereotype is one that falls on Willow himself. Because he is small in stature as well as his fellow villagers, they are thought to be less intelligent and physically able to do certain tasks. When Willow follows the queen’s army into battle he is often laughed and told to “watch out Peck”. He then shatters this thought of him being unable to fight by actually saving baby Elora in the end. Stereotyping often prevents certain people from coming together, however if they can be overcome, groups of people can work together as they did in the end of the movie. Last but not least is the element of power within interpersonal communication. The ...