Thriller Idea 1

THRILLER IDEA  1 - 

Opening Sequence - Intense looking man, psychopathic looking. Vivaldi’s 4 seasons/serenade 13 in g major by mozart playing loudly in the background, man looks as though he is painting a large canvas, intense motions like he is passionately painting. extreme close ups of the face to show intensity, sweat dripping down his forehead, wearing a boiler suit with splashes of JUST red paint on it, close ups of paint palate of just watery red paint (at this point the audience feels as though the worst thing he’s doing is painting with blood). At this point you don’t see the canvas or the instrument he is using to paint with. The man steps back from his ‘painting’ and reveals that what should be a paint brush is actually a scalpel and the camera pans round and his ‘canvas’ is actually a human body, tied with its hands above its head, still alive, gagged and bound with lots of blood coming from the stomach. Final shot is an extreme close up of the man smiling maniacally and laughing softly to himself obviously pleased with what he has created. 

(The song in the background totally contrasts the actions of what is happening, the calm nature of the man suggests psychopathic tendencies, goes against some general thriller conventions, but conforms to others like the introduction of an protagonist without giving too much away)

Whole Film - The man we are shown is a hitman. He is payed by mobsters mostly to do there dirty work but also gets a sick pleasure out of all his killings as he feels like he needs to do them in a perfect way, maybe he has obsessive compulsive disorder possibly. He clearly enjoys his job and feels no sense of remorse for lost life. We are following his killings throughout until finally his bosses kick him out of the mob or they get arrested and he is out of a job and a way to channel his psychopathic tendencies.