A Series Of Unfortunate Events is the story of Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Director:
Brad Silberling
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 | Jim Carrey | ... | |
 | Liam Aiken | ... | |
 | Emily Browning | ... | |
 | Kara Hoffman | ... | |
| Shelby Hoffman | ... | |
 | Jude Law | ... | Lemony Snicket (voice) |
 | Timothy Spall | ... | |
 | Catherine O'Hara | ... | |
 | Billy Connolly | ... | |
 | Meryl Streep | ... | |
Storyline The Baudelaire orphans learn of their parents death while sitting on a beach. Mr. Poe, a banker, comes to give them the news of their parents demise and take charge of them. He gives them into the hands of their next nearest relative, Count Olaf. Though the children doubt Olaf's legitimacy as their relative, he becomes their guardian. Olaf and his acting troupe treat the children horribly. They force them to cook and clean the house, which is filthy and falling apart. However, the children find a friend in their next door neighbour, Justice Strauss. She lets them use her library and is generally sympathetic towards the children. The children use her as help in buying ingredients for a dinner that Olaf has ordered them to cook for his acting troupe. There is no food in the house, and because of the mess the house is in, the kitchen is unfit to cook in. However, with the help of Violet's inventions, Klause's research skills, and Sunny's teeth, the children cook up a wonderful dinner of Pasta Puttanesca. This, of course, does not satisfy Count Olaf, who wanted roast beef. The children seek Mr. Poe for help in the matter of their new guardian. However, Mr. Poe is not the most observant or understanding banker, and tells the children that Olaf is a perfectly fine guardian. However, unbeknown to Mr. Poe, Count Olaf has devised a plan to steal the orphan's money left to them after their parents death. Olaf puts together a play with his troupe. During the play, Olaf will marry Violet, the oldest Baudelaire orphan, making it seem as if it is all part of the show. Klause uses the library of Justice Strauss to read about nuptial law to find a way to stop Olaf's plan. But, Olaf has invited Justice Strauss to play the part of a Justice in the play, and if they say wedding vows and sign the legal documents, the marriage will be legal. To make sure that the Baudelaire orphans will behave during the play, Olaf puts Sunny in a cage and locks her in the highest tower of his house, guarded by a member of his troupe. Klause and Violet attempt to rescue Sunny by using the grappling hook invented by Violet. However, Olaf's troupe captures them and locks them in the tower until the play begins. The play is performed using members of the community and Olaf's troupe. When it reaches the point of Olaf and Violet's marriage, Olaf proudly declares the success of his plan by announcing Violet's marriage. Justice Strauss, who sympathizes with the children, informs Olaf that you cannot marry if you are underage. But, Olaf counters that you may marry with a guardian's permission, and since he is her guardian, she must have permission. But, Violet announces that she has signed the document with her left hand. Being right handed, this voids the marriage. Justice Strauss agrees. Klause, Violet and Sunny are reunited, but Olaf escapes, threatening the children by telling them he will continue to pursuit them. Because the children have grown close to Justice Strauss, she offers to adopt them. But, Mr. Poe insists that their parents wished for them to be kept by a relative. The story ends as they are taken off to find their next guardian.  |
| Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaire at 14, who is brave and fast-thinking leader. She often helps her 12-year-old brother Klaus and her baby sister Sunny solved problems with her inventing skills. As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group. Violet was an ingenious inventor, as we can see she will uses a hair ribbon to keep her hair out whenever she is busy inventing things. |
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| Klaus, 12 years old boy is the middle child of the Baudelaire Orphans. He has an older sister named violet and a younger sister named Sunny. His sister Violet is the family inventor, Sunny is the family biter and Klaus is the researcher. Klaus is the “Bookworm” of the family, and his love of books helped him save himself and his sisters. Klaus is intensely intelligent and obsessed with words. |
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| The youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans, is infant Sunny. She cannot walk and largely speaks in idiosyncratic form of baby talk, and only her siblings can understand, and she has a tendency to bite. She also repeatedly demonstrates advanced problem solving skills, motor dexterity, comprehension, moral reasoning, and intelligent. Early in the story, she frequently noted for the size and strength of her teeth. Sunny is required on multiple occasion to use her teeth. 1. Social In terms of social, Baudelaire’s relationship with their guardian is quite different. As we can see, the three Baudelaire’s are very good in terms of family relationship. Violet, Klaus and Sunny are very united and they love each other. In this story, we also can see the Baudelaire children’s as free-thinking and independent. They will find a solution to save their life when they were attacked by their first guardian, Count Olaf. While the adults around them were obey the authority and succumb to mob psychology, peer pressure, need, ambition and other social ills. For instance, their first guardian named Count Olaf, was a very determination person. He will use any tricks in order to get the Baudelaire’s heritage, as such he parked his car on the railroad with the intention to kill the Baudelaire children’s. Their second and third guardian, Uncle Martin and Aunt Josephine is a very good person. They loved the children and take care of them. They give them a comfortable place to stay. When Violet, Klaus and Sunny get the news of their parent’s death in a terrible fire, the three siblings are taken away to live with a relative they have never met named Count Olaf. But he is not a sympathizing, caring, comforting family member at all. In reality, Count Olaf is a dirty and unpleasant person who only wants to get the Baudelaire’s fortune. He also was a greedy relative, and willing to do anything to get his need and ambition. As we can see, Count Olaf live in the old, dirty and uncomfortable house. The bedroom also not comfortable at all as there is a lot of dusts. This is clearly showed that Count Olaf has a low level of economy. He also did not have any work. The story show the overall low economy of the people in that particular era. By looking at the political view of this story, we can see that Mr.poe has a very good personality of executor. He is caring and responsible person as he takes care of the Baudelaire’s children. Peoples in this story are not too obeyed to their rules and regulations. For example, Count Olaf always have a cunning ideas as long as he get what he wished. |
