Female Vigilante Revenge Film
Basically the film would be about a 20ish year old female student who is studying to be a surgeon. She is also taking care of her younger sister (because their parents died in the 7/7 bombing s or something along that line) who is starting to hang about in the 'wrong crowd'. With this wrong crowd, she is peer pressured into experiment in drugs and commit minor crimes and it become clear that this relationship will not end well at all. The reason why the younger sister is so susceptable to all this is because she feels disillusioned by her parent's deaths. All the while her elder sister is too busy in her own life to realise the downward spiral she is plummeting into. Then a third of the way into the film she goes to a 'party' with this crowd, but she is drugged and then raped and beaten by the main male leaders of the 'gang'. As a result she goes into a coma and her sister is left looking for answers and consumed by guilt that she was not there for her sister. After the police fail to follow up the incident, the central female protagonist goes out in search of revenge.
This plot and idea is influenced by the 'Deathwish' series of film's where in each film the central protagonist was wronged and then took the law into his own hands to put things right. This idea is part influenced by 'Dead man's shoes', a film about a paratrooper returning to his hometown to kill the small time drug dealers who tormented his brother.
The Film would open with the Directors name and the film Title both coming up on a blank screen with just the sound of dripping water in the background. The film would then flash to a scene that would be happening later on in the narrative.
The film would then open with a young man tied to a chair, blood dripping down the side of his forehead, just coming to. To show this I would have the camera start at a distorted angle and be out of focus. The camera would then turn to be at a straight angle and come into focus. The camera would then move to be the POV of the man and we would see around the dark room he is in and then focus on the door as we hear it unlock. We then go to a ECU of his frightened face as we hear the door handle turn, so that we can see how afraid he is at this point. The camera would then be at ground level as we see the door open and we see the main protagonist walk to the man, but we only see her feet at this point. I imagined at this point she'd be wearing boots and tha would be the only sound. I also wondered whether she should have an Axe dragging along the floor behind her as well, but I don't know whether the fact she is a surgeon could be used in that she could have a medicine bag full of scalpels etc in order to torture and extract information out of her victims.
From here i'm not to sure which route I want to take with this idea, but i'm going to develop it over the next week
7 comments:
Michaellll, that's such an amazing idea from cat =) x
Yh i agree with Cat , nice idea
From Max
that sounds like a great idea for an opening!
also maybe the idea of her having scalples and stuff instead of an axe would work better and link into her being a surgeon
from emma
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yeah the surgeon scalpels idea has more of a mysterious story line going for is compared to the 'typical' knife kind of killing....it would probably disturb the audience a lot more as someone who has access to that kind of equipment is someone you should be able to trust
frommmm cat x
one issue with this idea, might be that the political correctness of the idea of being raped etc. by people at a party after that girl in italy was raped and murdered by people she met at a party.
but you could adapt the story to be different yet still keep the same idea
from emma
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The fact is we dont see the 'rape' or drugging, in the opening of the film. All we hear is a hint of what has happened through the central protagonists dialogue with the 'thug'. Although I appreciate the 'tenderness' of the subject, without this 'shocking' element of the plot, the reason why the central protagonist goes out on a quest of reveng seems feeble. I do agree therefore that the dialogue in the beginning will be alot more careful around the subject, and plotwise we won't go into exactly what happens to the girl in the 'party' which makes her go into a coma.
mike
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(if anyone else has any ideas to tackle this problem comment)
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