Film Analysis

Film analysis.

Phone booth

How is it similar?

The main plot of phone booth is a hitman setting up his victim in order to cause him chaos. Similar in too our movie, the victim has been phoned and asked to meet in a certain area, where the hitman will be prepared to take him out. In phone booth the hitman is very stealthy and prepared to kill the victim, this is the same as our movie, as Lewis will be lying in the bush aimed up and ready to take out his awaiting person.

Both our and the movies hit man’s will be unseen to the unsuspecting victim. This builds tension for the audience, as they too will be intrigued to where the sniper is hiding and when he will take the shot.

How we can take examples from phone booth

In phone booth the victim is warned that he is about to be killed. Lewis and myself like this idea of suspension so we may consider putting this aspect into our movie trailer.

In phone booth we enjoyed the feeling of tension that was noticed throughout the movie. We too want to be able to take this characteristic into our own show, built up through the use of suspense; an example of this could be when I am trying to track down the hitman that has tried to kill me.

Aspects of the movie we didn’t enjoy.

An aspect of the movie that Lewis and I found frustrating was the lack of movement, and change of scenery. In our movie to avoid this we plan to change the scenery a couple of time and vary between different scenes. we feel it will be more entertaining for the audience to watch as they are not being made to watch the same scenery over and over again. And it will be interesting for them to be exploring a wider range of changing scenery, such as forestry, play parks etc.

Mr and Mrs Smith

How is it similar?

In a whole to two movies are fairly different. However in some certain scenes there are definitely similar aspects. On of the examples of this would be the cat and mouse strategy that the two people have, similar to that of Lewis and I. In this certain scene both characters are attempting to kill each other, a lot of tension is built up throughout, this is created by the music that is being played slowly in the background and also the way both the actors are taking precautious routes around the house.

 How can we take examples from Mr and Mrs Smith?

When watching certain scenes in Mr and Mrs Smith, we found plenty of different aspects that we felt would benefit our film. We were struggling to think up of something after the chase was over and they had both found each other, but thanks to this film we needn’t look any further. At the end of this seem, both character have guns aimed up at each other head at arms length, we would like to take this into our film, however instead of someone taking the shot, both guns will jam. This may be fairly comical for the audience as they would not be expecting it.

More examples that we will be taking from this movie is the wide range of camera angles that are occurring throughout. We found a certain camera angel that will feel would be suiting perfectly in our film; this is a sort of first person angel. We feel that this would suit our film perfectly and is puts the audience into the shoes of certain characters, and gives them a good sense of what they are seeing and experiencing.

Aspects of the movie that we didn’t enjoy

One of the aspects that we didn’t enjoy, was how all of the scene was based roughly in the same area, we feel that this can become fairly boring for the audience to watch, And felt that it was important for us to change the environment, and keep up with the fast passed nature of our film. Another aspect that we don’t feel will be good in our film would be the spraying of the weaponry, we like would like to take a more subtle approach with our weaponry

Taken

How is it similar?

Taken is similar to our trailer in many ways. The film is based around fight scenes, gun fights and manipulation. We aim to use some of the ideas Taken has used and incorporate it into our own Trailer. Such ideas are the camera angles, dark settings and mercenary like appearances. High tension moments used in Taken will definitely benefit us as we can take notes on how they have been performed and try to mimic or add our own style to it.

The characters are roughly the same as well. Nathan plays the hero of the trailer saving Jason’s character, also standing up for what he believes, relating to Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) character.

Jason plays the ‘damsel in distress’, like character, where Nathan has to come save him from the villains, relating the Liam Neeson’s characters daughter Kim (Maggie Grace).

Dhuran plays as one of the mercenary thugs in our trailer, relating to the kidnappers or henchman in Taken, taking Maggie Grace at the beginning of the film which could also relate to trying to kill Jason’s character at the start of our trailer.

Lewis plays one of the higher up mercenaries, the boss' assistant. And has a crucial fight in the middle of our trailer, demonstrating that both Nathan and Lewis have the abilities to fight. Relating to Taken, the character Lewis would play or be referred to would be Arben Bajraktaraj as Marko, the head boss’ assistant and at the end of the film, also performing a hand-to-hand fight with Liam Neeson.

Liam plays the ‘mastermind’ of the mercenary group, setting up the assassination, providing the weapons for the mission and ordering where the men to go. He would be referred to as Gérard Watkins as Patrice Saint-Clair, the main mysterious mastermind.

How can we take examples from Taken?

Camera angles, atmosphere, lighting, appearance and props, mis-en-scene and character presentation. As mentioned before, we aim to take parts of the film and recreate it into our own, for example, during the end of Taken, there is a crucial fight scene between Arben Bajraktaraj and Liam Neeson, showing the fight between the right hand man of the villains’ and the main hero character. The outcome will change or set things into motion, and we aim to use this idea.

Aspects of the movie that we didn’t enjoy

Taken is a film which didn’t require much editing or effects. In our trailer we aim USE more editing and effect wise as we don’t have the luxury or brilliant equipment.

- Nathan and Lewis