Fargo Questions

1. Are they the same as the script? No there is a whole chunk missing at the beggining
2. any changes? yes a few small ones
3. does the script portray what you expect to see in the film? i think yes even though there are diffrences you are given a good general idea about in the script.
Now view the sequence again. This time looking at the dialogue. answer the following questions based on the script for each character.

1.What is their name? jerry lunderguard
2.What type of words describe this person? business like, out of place
3.Can you tell from this sequence the role of this character? i.e are they a protagonist/Antagonist? yes from this part of the film you can see they are and antagonist as they are doign wrong for thier own personal gain
4.How do you know this? because you knwo that he his hiring these two men to kidnap his wife so that he can pay off soem kidn of debt with randosme money he will get.

Character Profile


Name: Russell Aitkin


Age:20-25


Nationality: British


Hometown: new town


Current Residence: single bedroom flat


Occupation: office worker


Siblings (describe relationship): younger brother at university soe feeling of jealousy


Spouse (describe relationship): None single man


Children (describe relationship): None


Grandparents (describe relationship):


Grandchildren (describe relationship):


Significant Others (describe relationship):


Relationship skills: is on the surface friendly has group of friends. Who do see him as a weak character and exploi this fact


Physical Characteristics: normal height short dark hair usually dressed in office style suits


Height:


Weight: goes to the gym three times a week slim


Race: caucasian


Skin color: white


Shape of Face:
Bland

Distinguishing features: scar on neck


How does he/she dress? Smart casual


Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.) casually smokes cannabis at home has done from a young age


Health: reasonable


Style (Elegant, shabby etc.):
appears straight cut cannabis is not seen as abnormal in his social circle it’s a casually taken drug as well as occasionally cocaine when out on weekends

Greatest flaw:
his passion to do well in his work. Which is exploited by his colleagues

Best quality: reliable

Which character from a thriller film is your character most likened to? N/A


Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes


Educational Background: went to a normal school didn’t do too well


Intelligence Level: reasonable


Any Mental Illnesses? Schizophrenia

Character's short-term goals in life: to do well in work


Character's long-term goals in life: take high managerial role at work


How self-confident is the character? Could be explaines as confident in some aspects of his life


What would most embarrass this character? If he was too find out hat his managers actually exploit his hardworking attitude.

How the Character is Involved in the Story


Character's role in the thriller (Protagonist/antagonist etc.): this character is the antagonist


Scene where character first appears: first appears staying late at work doing paper work for someone elses meetings. He goes o from work to a drug and drink filled night with old friends where his other more gritty personality is revealed


Relationships with other characters:
1. Character's Name: -- (Describe relationship with this character and changes to relationship over the course of the film).

His manager. Russels manager is who he needs to impress to do well in his job he works hard for his manager (tom) who exploits him when he reads of a serious of e-mails to other managers at work he sees that he is being exploited and is shaken up by this. He goes onto hate hs manager


2. Character's Name: -- (Describe relationship with this character and changes to relationship over the course of the film).

Russell’s out of work friends. Russell’s out of work friends are ones he has known for years they are as aspirational as Russell they spend most of there days in nightclubs and parties experimenting with drugs and getting involved in petty crime.


3. Character's Name: -- (Describe relationship with this character and changes to relationship over the course of the film).


How character is different at the end of the film from when the film began:

At the beginning of the film Russell is trying to better himself as a person he no longer wants to be a part of his drug taking criminal friend group. This is why he trys so hard at work. Russell has had a shady past which we don’t no much about the only information we get about this are brief flashbacks to traumatic time in his teenage years. While at work things start to get better for him but once he feels as if he is being exploited his mental state becomes worse than ever. He starts taking more cocaine and cannabis and he starts to deteriate. He ends up torturing his manager tom and keeping him in the office over night while he’s there he talks and talks about his past and what people have done to him. In this part fo the narrative we see his manager toms usually chipper and strong personality turn to pure weakness and his true self is shown he is understandably scared of Russell’s state. Throughout we see Russell drinking and taking more and more drugs and hurting himself. He ends up keeping tom in the building over the weekend until the early hours of Sunday morning when the police turn up and a hostage situation takes place. Russel lets two police officers into the office where he starts his absolute end over the space of a few hours tom starts to kill himself by beating himself and cutting himself in gruesome and shocking ways the film ends on a Monday morning when Russell eventually dies if I was to make this I would want the audience to feel sorry for Russell and that an injustice has taken place.

Protagonist/Antagonist

Alex De Large.

Film: A Clockwork Orange

 

Alex De Large is an intrsting character to look at for an example of an antagonist/protagnist as he changes from aoen to the other. In the first part of the film we see him as a man of no morals and no reason for his behavior referred to in the film as “the old ultra violence” which consits of both assault and on two occasions rape. However after being sent to prison he is put through a pioneering scheme, which uses hypnotism too stop him from committing crimes in the future and once he is released he can no longer do these things. He then becomes I ways a protagonist who you feel has been mislead by the government and people then try to help him with his problems.

 

Neo

The Matrix

In the matrix Neo is a clear protagonist he starts off in the film as a normal office worker who enjoys hacking. However his lif is changed when he finds out that the world he is living is fabricated by robots and is all an illusion. Eh is approached by a group who live outside “the matrix” who suspect he is the person who has been prophesized as “the one” throughout the film he fights with the issue that what he’s been living I all fake and also tries to fight against the robots and “the agents” to save humans from there illusive world. 

Introduction to thriller

Thriller

Of all the genres the thriller is probably the most difficult to define. The main reason for this is the amount of sub genres it has from action thrillers to horror thrillers. The thriller genre is best defined by its approach to the story rather than the story it’s self. A thriller will always have a protagonist which is often a floored character. This character often has something they need to achieve for example stopping a criminal or antagonist. Along the way there will often be danger and a lot of cliff hangers. For example in “the Bourne identity” the film continually builds suspense and it’s always unclear as to what is going to happen next. In thrillers you usually have quite a clear protagonist and a clear antagonist.

There certain editing techniques that are often uses in the thriller genre for example fast cutting and reverse shots fast cutting is usually used in chase scenes and high energy parts of the films. They also use reverse angle shots a lot to create tension and build suspense. But essentially the thriller must excite the viewer or thrill them. They’re often quite adrenaline driven films which give off energy in short sharp bursts after building it up over time to excite the viewer

Action Thriller
Conspiracy Thriller
Crime Thriller
Disaster Thriller
Horror Thriller
Psychological Thriller
Spy Thriller
Supernatural Thriller
Techno Thriller