thriller openings table

this is one of the things miss told me to put into this blog. a table of genre film openings. in this case thrillers we watched the openings of in class.

film title: Memento
year: 2000
director: Christopher Nolan

Representation: Gender= typical men, disability= atypical

Mise- en- scene: photographs and camera= mans disability is memory loss, darkness in house, black & white= mans memories, outside the house= natural lighting

Use of Camera: close up on picture at start, close up on dangerous things, weird angles and long shot give impression that viewer is seeing from the point of view of someone watching man

Sound: starts with sad quiet music as mood setter, then narrates from main character called Leonards point of view, sound of leonard shaking photograph louder than anything else at beginning, music becomes threatening during the murder scene, leonards friend teddys voice is quieter than the radio during the drive to the murder scene

Unrestricted/Restricted Narration: restricted narration= Leonard


Film title: Usual Suspects
Year: 1995
Director: Bryan Singher

Representation: men, drugs, and ethnicity

Mise- en- scene: guns, men dressed as gangsters= black hats, and coats, smoking cigarettes, are onboard a ship at port which is on fire, dead body on ground nearby

Use of Camera: close up on fire starting, close up on man in dark suit= can only see chest, hands, and arm, close up on feet and legs of dead man in flames

Sound: dark music in background, gunshot is loudest noise


film title: Seven
year: 1995
director: Kyle Cooper

representation: criminals

Mise en scene: photographs, pens, drawings, scissors, books, newspaper clippings

Use of Camera: close up of objects, and hand using some of them

Sound: screams, or music that sounds like screams

film title: memento
year: 2000
director: Christopher Nolan

form: reverse chronological with one line of action

multi- generic element/sub- genres: Crime Thriller

target audience and reason: men and adults because the film has gore in it unsuitable for children

Titles= why interesting: white on black= attention attracting/ unconventional


film title: Usual Suspects
year: 1995
director: Bryan Singher

form: chronological

multi- generic elements/ sub- genres: crime thriller

target audience and why: men and adults because of the gore in the film



film title: seven
year: 1995
director: Kyle Cooper

form: don't know

multi- generic elements/ sub- genres: crime/ horror thriller