In media today we watched the opening scenes to two different films. The two films where ‘Se7en’ and ‘North by Northwest’. They are both thriller films.
I have done a short evaluation for both of the opening scenes.
‘Se7en’
The opening sequence of ‘Se7en’ shows what sort of psychological state of mind the antagonist is in, in this film. The activities which he is doing, for example cutting off his finger print and cutting up things to put into this book he is making shows that he is in a disturbed state of mind. It shows he is mentally disturbed. The use of flickering on the names in the opening credits and the use of the music builds up tension and also contributes to the fact that the antagonist is disturbed. It is very unsettling.
‘North by Northwest’
This film starts by showing us the protagonist, in his everyday life. The opening sequence starts in a busy New York office block, where there are lots of people walking around. We get a sense that the protagonist is rich because he has his own assistant, but we also get a sense that is very busy, gives out lots of orders, that he is not very honest, and also two-faced because he gets his assistant to order stuff for his girlfriend and sort all the stuff out for his mum.
This film shows an ordinary man in an extra-ordinary situation because his normal city worker gets taken away by to men. This shows a case of mistaken identity.
In the background of the film there are two men watching the protagonist an when he gets up to send a telegram to his mother the two men grab hold of him and take him away. On of the indicators that something is going to happen is the music that starts to play when the protagonist gets touched by one of the two men that take him away.
In the piece of writing I have just written above I used two words, antagonist and protagonist.
The antagonist is the character that plays opposite to the main character; this is the evil/villain character.
The protagonist is the main character; this is the good/hero character.
I have done a short evaluation for both of the opening scenes.
‘Se7en’
The opening sequence of ‘Se7en’ shows what sort of psychological state of mind the antagonist is in, in this film. The activities which he is doing, for example cutting off his finger print and cutting up things to put into this book he is making shows that he is in a disturbed state of mind. It shows he is mentally disturbed. The use of flickering on the names in the opening credits and the use of the music builds up tension and also contributes to the fact that the antagonist is disturbed. It is very unsettling.
‘North by Northwest’
This film starts by showing us the protagonist, in his everyday life. The opening sequence starts in a busy New York office block, where there are lots of people walking around. We get a sense that the protagonist is rich because he has his own assistant, but we also get a sense that is very busy, gives out lots of orders, that he is not very honest, and also two-faced because he gets his assistant to order stuff for his girlfriend and sort all the stuff out for his mum.
This film shows an ordinary man in an extra-ordinary situation because his normal city worker gets taken away by to men. This shows a case of mistaken identity.
In the background of the film there are two men watching the protagonist an when he gets up to send a telegram to his mother the two men grab hold of him and take him away. On of the indicators that something is going to happen is the music that starts to play when the protagonist gets touched by one of the two men that take him away.
In the piece of writing I have just written above I used two words, antagonist and protagonist.
The antagonist is the character that plays opposite to the main character; this is the evil/villain character.
The protagonist is the main character; this is the good/hero character.
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