Other Thriller Films

We researched the following films to help produce a storyline idea for our own Thriller film opening sequence:

I have discovered that Source Code is a Thriller Film about a soldier called Captain Colter Stevens who wakes up on a train to Chicago. He has no idea where he is and what he is doing there. The woman with him keeps calling him Sean and seems to know him. However, whenever Steven looks into a mirror he sees Sean as his reflection. Suddenly the train blows up and the scene cuts out. Source code uses many Thriller conventions such as, mistaken identities, innocent victims, characters with dark pasts and it brings a sense of uncertainty.

The Sixth Sense is a thriller film about a boy who can see ghosts- at first we are uncertain if he is lying or not, but later it is revealed that he is telling the truth. He is visited by Doctor Crow, a child psychologist, who is having relationship problems after he was shot by one of his ex-patients, to help convince him that ghosts aren’t real. The boy seemed quite scared by the doctor, but manages to convince him that ghosts are real. Dr Crow tells him to help the ghosts move on. The end reveals a huge plot twister- Dr Crow died when his ex-patient shot him and the boy helped him move on.

The Bourne Identity is about a man found by fishermen with multiple shot wounds and a microchip displaying a code for a safety deposit box. When the man wakes up he has no idea who he is and is chased by multiple people, but he doesn’t know why.  He takes the name of Jason Bourne when he finds an ID card. Through his adventures involving crime, suspense, intense excitement, he has to find out who he is.

Fight Club is about an unnamed narrator who suffers from insomnia. To gain relief, he attends all support groups, pretending to be one of them. He soon finds a woman just like him and they discuss a schedule. He later meets a man called Tyler, and they start a fist fight. They become friends and Tyler lets him move in. Tyler and the Narrator continue the fistfights and soon get an audience- this begins Fight Club. Tyler and the narrator fall out due to the woman he met at the support groups and Tyler becomes the leader of all fight clubs around the world in the group he calls ‘Project Mayhem’. The Narrator tries to join the project, but Tyler disappears. People start calling him Tyler, the huge plot twist shows that Tyler is him and that they are one- he was his disassociated personality and that Tyler was in fact controlling his body.
 The Narrator blacks out and wakes to find that Tyler was going to bomb all credit card companies to help stop all debts. The Narrator tries to stop them, but is subdued by his other personality. ;ater he is held at gunpoint by Tyler, when the Narrator realises that he himself is holding the gun. The Narrator shoots himself in the cheek, killing Tyler with a wound to the back of the head. Project Mayhem members’ hand the woman to ‘Tyler’ and the Narrator and her watch, holding hands, as the bomb goes off.
It includes the following conventions; intense excitement, suspense, uncertainty, plot twister, innocent victims, suspicious individuals.