The main reason for choosing these as my inspiration is because they generally are what I want in my film opening sequence to be like. I liked the aesthetic of some’s, the camera work of some’s, or the story of someone’s.
Knives Out (2019)
The first and the foremost is Knives Out, which resembles the most to my film opening sequence and what I want my film opening to be like. The editing and the suspense is what made me inspired and the way the story is told and how it unfolds is what intrigued me the most. The camera work also plays an important part in story telling, so I want to incorporate similar camera work. The story also hooks the audience till the end because it does not tells us who the killer is, but gives us clues which makes the audience a part of the film by making them guess the story. The suspense part is also why it is one of my inspiration.
“Knives Out has a power-packed flock of performers and the beautifully-cast protagonist, ensuring that this whodunit elevates from being a murder mystery to a thrill.” – Sonia Lulla
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Us (2019)
Us is one of the movies which genuinely left me thinking about it days after watching because of how they changed the whole plot in the last minutes of the movie, which makes the whole movie just turn around, and because of that, the audience now has to re-think and re-watch the whole movie again in order to get what really happened. It is not only a horror movie like what it seems, no, this is mind-twisting, something which makes you think which is exactly why it is one of my inspiration. Also, the colour pallette and the scheme used in the movie is what I first considered what my film opening would be like, and the idea stuck into my mind till now.
“Jordan Peele knows how to draw a good story, no question. But when he colors it in, it’s always dripping red.” – Plugged In Staff
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Orphan (2009)
This movie starts almost normally, with a happy and stable family and as we move towards the end, the movie becomes horrifying and disturbing without any sudden jump. The plot thickens as the story goes on, and the incidents which lead to the climax gives the audience subtle hints and foreshadows the end, it makes you angry at yourself for not grasping the problem before. The genre thriller, suspense and horror, being my favourite, made me watch the movie, but what inspired me to make something similar was because how the movie was on my mind days after watching it. It affected the audience’s mindset, and I also wanted to make something similar, something which made the audience remember my work.
Other than the horrifying and sad ending, the aesthetic and dark tones used for the movie enhanced the mood and also inspired me to go with a dark theme, which is why this movie made it to my top 3 inspiration. The aesthetic and editing were the main reason why I chose this.
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