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We planned to use the concept of a rogue detective who has lost his wife who has either disappeared or died. Either way, the detective has taken matters into his own hands and plans to take revenge on whoever or whatever took his wife away from him. In our coursework thriller opening piece, we would have the detective returning home with a duffel bag in his hand. What is inside the bag remains unknown throughout the piece, but it would likely be information or weapons of some description. Once he is home, he enters a study were he has pinned news articles and pictures linking to his wife's disappearance or murder. He becomes infuriated by the reminder of his lost wife and tears down the wall of information and swipes all the items on his desk onto the floor in a fury. Before going to the bathroom, he pegs his suit jacket to a coat hook. He then goes to the bathroom where he takes out a capsule containing pills or medication and takes them as he looks at himself in the mirror above the sink. He may wash his face to try and clear himself of the grief. At this point, he decides to get some air. He picks up his jacket from the hook he placed it on and leaves the house. After a while of walking, he finds himself in a dark and dismal alleyway. There is another person at the other end of the alleyway walking towards him. As a single streetlight lights the alleyway, the detective comes to the realisation that when the other man comes into the light of the streetlight that he is the man who killed or abducted his wife. He knows this because he saw the same man's picture on his wall before he tore it down off the wall. The detective then proceeds to either interrogate the man or kill him depending on the decision that is made based on how it might affect the plot. In either outcome, the detective kills the man. The final shot is of the detective walking away with a bloody knife or set of keys in his hand, with the dead man's hand lying completely still on the floor.
We took a lot of influence from the movie Se7en, with the idea of a detective who is different from the others and likes to do things his own way. Also including the disorientation and somewhat fearful factor that Kevin Spacey's character brings into the fold of the film, with the bloody knife or keys set and the pills that the detective takes illustrates his instability and rogue nature. However, we thought it would be effective to take influence from more typical film noir pieces such as The Third Man with the way that we use scenery to create tension and an increased fear factor.