No contry for old men
The film starts with long sweeps on the desolate hills and feilds. This makes it seem very isolating because there is no where to hide.
It then cuts to a man gettting put into a Police car. This raises the first Questions, What has he done wrong.
Then it cuts to the Police station and the copper on the phone with the man in the backround, the man then gets up and strangles the cop to death. this makes you think he is a pshyco and he must have done some think very bad to do that so he can get away.
After the death he washes his hand. This raises the questions that he seems to know what he is doing.
The pshyco then drives in the police car and follows and pulls over a person in a car. The 'cop' gets out of the car holding a oxygen tank. Which raises another question which is why has he got the oxygen tank. he then tells the person to get out of the car which he does. he is then shot by the oxygen tank with compressed air which kills him.
It then cuts to a new charater which has a sniper scope aimed at a gazell. He fires and he starts to follow the blood, but he comes a cross a different blood trail which he find to be from a dog. he then follows the trail from the dog the other way. This raises a New question, Why is the dog hurt?
He then goes over a hill and sees four or five trucks with blood splated all over them. plus there is lots of dead bodies and dead dogs all over the ground. This answer the last Q but creates a new Q, Why are these people dead?
The person looks in a few of the trucks and there is a lots of ammo on the seat to show a over the top amont of shooting. he then looks in a truck with a murky window and see a man dieing. he does no help but he doesd loot the ammo from him. he then looks in the back of the truck and sees lots of drugs which answers the last Q.
The last peice you see is the amont of dark cloud gavering and then a sudden gut of wind which seems to show that some think bad is about to happen.
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The way it is a tyipical thriller is very easy to spot for me. most thrillers normally have a death or a series of deaths. like final destination or they have a fight sense like james bond. they do have other things like car chases like in transporter. this film has a death and a few more dead people it raises Question a lot. like why has the man got a gas tank or why is the dog injuried. all of these are answered in the film but some are also clues to the ending and the story line. most thriller films have a big twist but this is normally near the latter stages of the film to make you think what is going to happen. some of these films like final destination have a couple twist in the film. Also thriller films are normally quite jumpy. so they can scare you but not in a gorey way like a horror. comedy and thriller normally goes to gether very well becasue it is easy to make some grusome things funny like in 'Sean and the Dead'.
Friday, 9 October 2009
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A good focus on detail Tyler. You really need to use the correct terminology and refer to the conventions of thrillers and explain how this film opening follows the conventions we talked about.
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