Sunday 19 February 2012

Opening Scenes Analysis

I will now find 3 thriller films, and analyse their opening scenes; commenting on the titles and their on-screen appearance/presentation, sound/music, camera work, and editing - and why this makes them thriller conventional.
The three films I will be analysing are:-
  • 'The Butterfly Effect' (2004) - Psychological thriller starring Ashton Kutcher. Evan (Kutcher) can travel back in time through remembering scenes from his childhood that he once recorded in a diary. He keeps jumping back in time in order to save the woman he loves, but each time he goes back, he further damages his brain and by changing even the smallest things in the past, he finds terrible repurcussions when he goes back to the present.
  • 'Air Force One' (1997) - Crime Thriller starring Harrison Ford. When terrorists hijack the US President's private jet, Air Force One; the protagonists must stop the terrorists from assassinating the President and gaining access to the nuclear missile launch button also on board the plane.
  • 'My Bloody Valentine' (2009) - Horror thriller starring Jensen Ackles. When a series of brutal murders occur on the 10th anniversary of another huge massacre within a small mining town, locals and police alike believe the murderer to be Harry Warden - the same insane miner who commited the original massacre of 22 people in the village all those years ago. But there is just one problem... Harry has been dead for a decade.

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