Unit 12 pp (2)
- 2. Phycological/suspense thrillers. The subject I believe I can talk most about and include quotes and apply my own knowledge to is the genre of film, Phycological thrillers, they are made to keep the audience on edge and the tension is built up throughout the film with a huge reveal/ twist usually.
- 3. Research Joel & Ethan Coen David Fincher Denis Villeneuve Christopher Nolan Alfonso Cuarón In the phsycological/suspense thriller genre, these are a few directors working today that are revolutionising the way these sorts of films are being made. I think the most effective directors that use suspense and tension as one of their main techniques are David Fincher and Dennis Villeneuve. David Fincher, most notible for fight club and seven leads the way in this genre of film. His cinematography, specific camera movements and suspense all are used to create a film that provides an intersting (normally crime driven) story that is built up with tension throughout the film. David Fincher has a specific camera movement he uses in most shots and films of his, the eyeline of the shot is kept the same, the person moves, the camera is moving when the characters eyes are moving. In a way, he hijacks your eyes and attention, in 0ther movies, during tense charcter scenes the camera could be anywhere, and the centre of shot could be anything, however, keeping the eyeline makes you see things the way the charcters do, it gives the audince more of a connection with them. This comes into factor when, again, during a tense scene if the protagonist is in danger, you feel the danger with them, you are attached to the character.
- 4. DAVID FINCHER David fincher is one of the leading directors in thrillers and mystery films, the movies leave you wanting more.
- 5. Imagery in thrillers- Enemy and spiders-Denis Villeneuve One of the most shocking moments in cinema history is the spider scenes from Enemy(2014). The film is set out to be a psychological drama/thriller, there is spider imagery throughout the film like webs shown in cracks in windows and tram lines that are at an angle to look like webs. But the most horrific scenes include giant spiders that are most likely metaphorical and a figment of Jake Gyllenhaal's characters imagination and delusions. At the end of the film, Jakes teaching character (because there are two of him in the movie and that’s what the story is about, It’s a classic duality of man story) walks into his apartment and his wife is seen getting of the shower and into their bedroom, he calls her name a couple times, walks over to the room, the camera pans around to reveal a room-sized tarantula, this dreadful looking creature is supposedly a metaphor for how he sees his wife because he feels trapped in a boring relationship and life basically in his downwards spiral of sanity. Overall, the spiders are symbolic of his wife and mother, the way he is controlled, and the way Gyllenhaal's character feels trapped in these relationships.
- 6. Children of men Alfonzo Curan Children of men is set in a near dystopian future where the human race becomes infertile and certain extinction is inevitable, until Clive Owens character is put to the task of helping a pregnant woman to a safe place that is not corrupted, like London is depicted as with its strict rules and immigration camps. Snowpiercer is more far fetched, although is similar to children of men as it is a thriller set in a dystopian future
- 7. Mindhunter-David Fincher One of David Fincher's most recent projects, alongside a lot of other creators, is the Netflix original "Mindhunter". The name of the book, published by who the characters in the show are loosely based on, is also called Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, It follows Holden Ford and Bill Trench as they interview "Serial Killers" to find out what their motives are, on their journey they end up solving a few current cases which also helps them with their study. They are part of the FBI's behavioral science unit tasked to making what became the book "Mindhunter". As David Fincher is one of the executive producers, his styling and directing is clearly reflected in this series. His low-light, yellow tinted atmospheres can be spotted easily when watching the series other David fincher films Mindhunter
- 8. Holden fords character who is based on(loosely), John E Douglas, the author of the real Mindhunter book that revolutionized the way in which people view serial killers Bill Tench is also (loosely) based on a real person, Robert K. Ressler who also helped coined the term serial killer.
- 11. Horror Thrillers
- 12. James Wan James wan is one of the leading directors in the modern horror genre today, his films are widley recognised as the defining scary movies of this day and age. His 7 movie deep universe into the conjuring and annabelle series make good box office returns, the first movie in the series, The conjuring, based on the amityville horror made a profit of $300 million US dollars, so the movies don’t have to be the best they just have to look good, provide a slight, sometimes dense, sense of horror which has an engaging story and most importantly, cheap jump scares. In any james wan film, even in the first 15 mins, you will be struck by a jump scare, the scare may not even contain anything scary, it literally is just put there to confuse you so when a jump scare that is meant to be taken seriously is put there, you don’t know what to think. Although, if you have seen enough of them and know the cheap techniques Wan uses, it's quite easy to predict the when the scares happen. I, personally dont really like the movis because of the predictability of the scare, and the fact that i don’t really find them scary because of this, however, i can see why people like them and the fact they are origional and made by the same person points to the fact this may be a sub-genre of film that has been previously unexplored.
- 13. Ari Aster Ari Aster is the director of the 2018 horror film Hereditry, for some, this is the most genuinely scary film they have seen in years, it strives away from the sub-genre james wan has created with his horror flicks over the last 20 years, like insidious, conjuring, Annabelle (and their sequels). Hereditary is more comparable to a Kubrick or Hitchcock film in the sense that the horror is genuine, what you looking at physically scares you, unlike most modern horror films where the scare is merely from a jump scare. Infamous head banging shot that haunts the viewer in my opinion the levitating shot was severely frightening
- 14. These are just some shots from scenes in which true horror is shown. Possesion at school: most possesions are depicted at nighttime in recent and especially pre millenuim history and with some of the scariest scenes are set in broad daylight in supposedly one of the safest places you could be at, hereditary still shows horror in this unlikely situation. One of the main story devices is a decapitation of the person on the right's sister which is the most realistic and terrorfying depiction of an accidental beheading that I have ever seen.
- 15. Rosemaries baby
- 16. https://nofilmschool.com/2017/11/watch-what-david-fincher-can-show-you-about-soundtracks Laura Turner. (2019). One important Mindhunter moment didn't actually happen in real life.Available: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a28782790/mindhunter-true-story-holden-ford-anxiety/. Last accessed 12th Nov 2019.