Scriptwriting- Basic Stories

This weeks screenwriting lesson was about understanding the basic stories used in screenwriting and learning about how to overcome writing block and be creative with stories. We went through the list of basic stories which are:

Achilles- A fatal flaw the leads to the destruction of the main character
Candide- The naive triumphant hero
Cinderella- The dream come true
Circe- The chase, innocent and the victim
Faust- Selling soul to the devil to bring riches
Orpheus- Gift taken away, loss of something personal
Romeo and Juliet- Boy meets girl, boy loses girl
Tristan- Triangles (Eternal or otherwise)

After talking about these basic stories and listing examples of these stories we moved on to choosing 3 random words, one been a character, one been a place and the last been a key word to help develop the story. We were told to create a short synopsis for a story using these 3 words. My 3 words were Ninja, Street and Anger. I used these words to write this synopsis.

Ninja on a secret mission for his brotherhood of ninjas, when a accident leads to a head injury giving the ninja amnesia. After becoming lost from his brotherhood and winding up in America with no knowledge of his past or who he is, but left only with some kick-ass ninja skills he takes up occupation as a street dancer and gains worldwide success and fame. Understandably his brotherhood become very angry with his apparent betrayal and abandonment they seek revenge in an ultimate dance showdown thats fun for all ages.    

After writing the synopsis we were told to think about which basic story category our synopsis fell under and I felt like mine was a cross between Candide and Orpheus with the main character not been too smart after his accident and been quite naive with his gift been taken away.