Successful thriller movies from the last 10 years (trailers)

District 9 is a South African action/thriller directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film had a budget of $37,354,308 (USA) and made over £115.6m. District 9 was released in 2009 and great high ratings.


2. Prisoners 





Prisoners is an American thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film was released in 2013 and made with a budget of $46 million (USA). Overall, the film made over £38.5 since it's release in 2013. Prisoners was rewarded for having a great plot and a touching story.


3. Insidious 





Insidious in an American horror/thriller directed by James Wan. The film was released in 2011 with a budget of $1.5 million (USA). The film made £54 million since it's release. It received mixed reviews but still made a huge profit on production.

4. Shutter Island



Shutter Island is an American thriller with a confusing, but great plot. It was made with a budget of $80 million (USA) and overall made over $294,804,195.

5. American Psycho




American Psycho is an American thriller film directed by Mary Harron.
It was made with a budget of $7 million (USA) and made over $34 million on box office.
It received good reviews for having a gripping story line.


6. Zero Dark Thirty.





Zero Dark Thirty is an Amarican thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It is meant to re-enact the event in which the American special forces killed Osama Bin Laden. It was made with a budget of $40 million (USA) and made over $138,720,716 on box office.

7. Phone Booth.

Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.

This film had a budget of around $13,000,000 and has made a total of $46,566,212 (USA). In the UK it has made £6,609,312.

8. The Dark Night. 

When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, The Joker, Bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing heros down to his level. 

This film had a huge budget of $185,000,000 and in the USA it made around $534,858,444. This film made around £48,685,166. Therefore this film had a very successful turnover. 

9. Saving Private Ryan.

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. This film was directed by Steven Spielberg with a budget of $70 million (USA) and made over $481,840,909 on box office. 




10. Enemy of the State.

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.

 With a massive budget of $90,000,000, the film has made over $111,544,445 just in america.

Catch me if you can- Opening sequence.

The trailer starts of very quiet and relaxed with smooth music and a basic but fitting font.
Also, there are many stick figures waking around (representing citizens) and a single figure looking slightly suspicious (representing the main character).

The music then begins to pick up the pace when the camera zooms in on the main character and when it zooms out to show an enlarged figure (main character).

The music continues to change from steady to heavy throughout each scene.
Also, the scenes used in the opening are portraying (foreshadowing) the events to come in the movie.
An example of this is the scene showing the main character walking through the hospital with the FBI agent following him.

After this, the main character walks through a library and then disappears into the darkness, leaving me to try and guess what happens next. After this, some books in the library fall over and the pages go everywhere. I then noticed a figure standing behind the flapping pages (FBI agent).

While this is happening, the music adopts a slightly deeper tone. The scene then goes dark with a load of white lines appearing down the screen. Then the main character's figure passes through the figures and disappears again. Once he disappears, a white rectangle appears standing up. This then turns into a doorway for the FBI agent to go through.

SE7EN ANALYSIS

                                                                   SE7EN ANALYSIS 

Opening scene
Effect of the sound used

There is a montage of sound used in the opening of 'Se7en' however the sound is very mixed and gives off an eerie feeling and a creepy atmosphere. It starts off slow with a constant beat and quiet to set the mysterious scene however shortly afterwards the sound begins to grow and becomes loud which is comfortable as it fits with the actions shown. The music doesn't really fit well together but, because of the eeriness,  creates suspense and an uncomfortable feeling as it sort of pierces through you. At the end of the opening the sound all of a sudden stops suddenly like something has happened. We know this is the end of the opening because the silence signifies that it is the end of the opening scene when nothing happens.

The image above is the opening scene to the film 'Se7en'.

Effect of images used

The opening scene to 'Se7en' gives the audience a mysterious feel to the film as the shots shown go well with the eerie sound. It creates a scary atmosphere with the dark shots being constantly shown which sort of gives a subliminal message for the feeling of uncomfortableness. The scenes flash between each other a lot which gives a spooky atmosphere with the constant flicker of images however these images make the viewer unaware of what is exactly going on in the opening scene which creates an enigma. There are various amounts of shots in this opening scenes like various distances of close ups and overlays of shots which adds to the mysteriousness to the scene.

The shot here shows an overlay of the same shot but at different angles.

The shot here shows a close up which gives the viewer an enigma to what this might be about.

Marnie Annotation

                                                                 Annotation of Marnie
                                        Mini descriptions of different scenes (what I noticed)



The first thing I notice is that the opening starts with the company logo. This is expected with most films. The next thing I notice is that the company logo switches to different titles by using a 'turning page' effect. This is due to the fact that the film is based on a novel.
While this is happening, dramatic music starts to play.

The music completely stops and all I hear is a woman's footsteps. First thing the view sees is a close up shot of a woman with a yellow bag walking away from the camera. The camera is completely focussed on the bag (main object) which tells the view that this bag is going to have some kind of importance (significance).

The music completely stop's in this scene, cuts from first scene straight to a close up of a man shouting 'Robbed'. He then points at the safe with a direct eye line match to show where the money was. He then informs the other characters how much money was stolen. At this point we begin to realize that the stolen money is in the yellow bag.

After this, the man then informs us of who stole the bag, Marian Holland. While doing this he repeats the name of the woman three times. By doing this he is addressing the audience directly making sure they know that its a woman that stole the money and to apply a name to the female character from the first scene (even though we do not see her face). Also his description of the woman who stole the money suggests that him and her had some form of relationship or that he has (had) some form of interest in her.

After this, a tall man enters the scene. We can tell that he is of more significance than the other characters because he takes up most of the screen (visual hierarchy).

Calm Music starts up again as soon as scene starts. A close up shot of the yellow handbag again, this shot mirrors the first shot from the first scene.

We then see the woman walking. We notice that she is in a hotel as she is walking down a corridor with rooms either side with a bellboy holding her luggage. As they are approaching the end of the hallway, Alfred Hitchcock walks out of one of the hotel rooms. Hitchcock features himself in the majority of his films.

Calm music gradually progressing throughout the scene. long shot of woman in hotel room with bags being packed with new clothes. She then opens the yellow bag to reveal all of the stolen money and empties it into her suitcase.A close up of the purse being opened, with multiple ID cards being shown which tells us she is planning to steal again. Close up shot of sink full of water with her dying her hair, the pace of the music increases and turns romantic as we see her face for the first time just for a couple of seconds.