The character I like most in the animated short movie, One Man Band which was played during my English lecture is the little girl, Tippy. The main reason I like her is because she is very cheeky. She has a gold coin with her which she wanted to drop into a fountain. However, just as she was about to do that, a musician, Bass at the roadside catches her attention. He tries to convince her to give her the coin.
Just as she was about to give him the coin after listening to his music, once again she is distracted; this time by another musician by the roadside, Trebel. The movie goes on for a while with both the musicians trying to prove to Tippy that they are better. Suddenly, the little girl's gold coin drops into the drain. This makes the girl very angry. She forces one of the musician to give her a violin. When she gets what she wants, she plays a tune and a passer-by gives her a bag of gold coins. This is when Tippy is cheeky. She acts as though she wants to give the musicians a gold coin each but in the end she drops the coins into the fountain.
Towards the end of the movie, we can see irony, where both the musicians, who were initially competing for one gold coin, end up working together and helping each other to extract the coins from the fountain.
When we talk about the little girl's characteristics, I tend to look at her as a protagonist. Yes, she is revengeful but there is more to it than what it seems. She is happy to listen to both musicians, but as the story evolves they become more aggressive and desperate for her attention (to her money, exactly). In the end, to teach both musicians a lesson, she makes both of them to get to the coins on the fountain. In order to do that, both musicians must work together and put aside their differences. A lesson is learnt.
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