Influences of our thriller - Jack Merren

The main ideas of our thriller were mainly pieced together from different ideas of other films and other genres. The idea of a female protagonist steams from films such as scream where a female is based as the main character but is shown to be vulnerable and in need of help, Although our twist with the female as the main protagonist is twisted to the fact that she is the main protagonist and the main antagonist. The idea of an independent woman that has the upper hand at the end of the film reflects that of the modern day female, due to feminist campaigns and female equalities a lot of males have felt threatened by women’s power in modern a society and what better place to make that threat spread than in a previously male dominated genre.

The idea of a female protagonist spiralled from Aeon Flux which is a completely different genre to a thriller but the idea of a strong, independent and deceiving female character. The deceiving female character is used to show woman’s power over men and that woman can almost get everything they want by deceiving men and by being unreliable. Also the costume of the main protagonist in Aeon Flux is always dressed in neat unrestricted clothing that is revealing to show her sexual security that she can use over men and also the colour black of her clothing shows dominance as black is the most powerful colour. We adopted the idea of black clothing for our main character whom is dressed in a black formal suit.

The storyline of deceit and murder undoubtedly comes from The Godfather series. Also the idea of gangster trades such as the mafia or triads come from The Godfather which is the main connotation of a gangster thriller. Again we used the costumes of smart suits in our thriller to bring the gangster connotation to our film. We have used the ominous and dark storyline for out thriller like in Godfather as well as using a questionable ending.