Thriller Film Openings Analysis

The Bourne Identity

• Non Linear
• Restricted
• Phycological Thriller

• ·         Heavy weather as background noise e.g. thunder
• ·         Dark/dim lighting
• ·         Fighting
• ·         Distress from character shown within the first scene
• -    Surgical equipment

    Crank

•     Non linear
•     Restricted
•     Phycological Thriller
•     Drug dosing scene

• ·         Fast pace camera angles
• ·         Dark/dim lighting
• ·         Mysterious entry from the characters
• ·         One of the characters lives in an urban apartment – most likely situated in a city e.g. New York
• ·         Explicit language used
• ·         A clear Antagonist and Protagonist
• ·         Drug syringes
• ·         Cars

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  The Machinist

•     Crime Thriller - character, most likely murderer/criminal carrying a dead body
• -   Restricted
•     Aftermath of a crime scene
•     Non-linear
•     Enigma code - Who is the person that has been murdered and thrown into the sea? Why does this man have a dead body?
•     Dark and gloomy
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  Insomnia

•     Crime and political thriller - murder has taken place, opening character is a professional/detective, references to murders in script
•     Restricted
•     Linear
•     Enigma code - Who is the person in the pictures that has been slaughtered and murdered
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