1975 Film

My movie, Someone’s Under my Bed is about a serial killer who lays down next to girls’ beds and waits for them to go to sleep and then he rapes and kills them. It works well for viewers in 1975 because horror movies started becoming more realistic which made them popular among audiences. I am going for a very realistic style so that the audience feels a part of the movie. This is always a good choice for horror films because the more realistic it is the scarier it is. My film doesn’t really have a message because the purpose of it is just to scare and entertain the viewers.

The genre is just horror. It fits into the story because it’s about a serial killer which is pretty scary. The actors I chose work well for this genre too. I know that Jack Nicolson was in the Shining as the killer so I used him as the killer in my film. I think that he would play this character well.

I chose William Friedkin as the director of my film because he did a good job with The Exorcist. That film seemed very realistic and I want mine to have the same effect, the lead actors are Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicolson. I chose Faye Dunaway because she would be good at playing an innocent teenager. I chose Jack Nicolson as the killer because he uses scary facial expression to play roles in horror films. My main focus will be the cinematography. The lighting will need to be spot on because most of the scenes are at night. Also, there will have to be good camerawork to get the most realistic effect.

My film is Rated R for sex and violence. Since most 70’s films are pretty explicit there will be terrifying scenes of the girls getting raped and killed which will not be suitable for children. 70’s films were the opposite of Escapism. There was a lot of realism in the 70’s so my film is very realistic. Also Auteur film was very popular and my film is made entirely be me.

I chose to make a movie on this story because my sister told me it a few years ago and it has always stuck with me and made me very scared. This is a true story that a parent my sister babysat for told her.  Jane in my movie is the mom that my sister babysat for. She told my sister that she had a sliding door in her room when she moved to her new house. One night she woke up in the middle of the night and noticed that it looked like there were footprints on her carpet leading to the bed. She counted to three and ran from her bed as fast as she could to her parent’s room and they called the cops. They went back to her room and there was no one there but the sliding door was open. The cops found the killer two days later and told her family that this man had been lying next to girls beds for a while and killing and raping them while they’re sleeping.

MYST

     Over the weekend I watched No Strings Attached. This film was made in 2011 and was directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars two very popular actors of the time, Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman.  This film is about the relationship of a man and women that is just supposed to be physical and emotionless. But their feelings for each other get in the way and they end up falling in love with each other.

 

 

                This film really exemplifies the values of people in today’s society. Many people strive to find love while others feel that they just aren’t cut out for relationships. This film is very comparable to another film that came out in the same year, called Friends with Benefits. This film also stars two very popular actors, Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. I think that these two films are both trying to portray the lives of many people. Their message is that love comes unexpectedly and you cannot help your feelings. Also the actors used in both of these films are very popular and attractive. This shows that the producers of these films wanted to draw viewer’s attention.

                There are many cinematic elements of this film that are very interesting. The technique used in the beginning of the movie is interesting because it shows different time frames of the main characters lives. They both keep running into each other every few years. The editing is cool because the film displays what year it is on the screen as the time jumps forward. This effect reminded me of that in the movie When Harry met Sally because the two character’s relationship in this film developed in a similar way.

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One specific scene that stood out to me was the scene when the two main characters are on their first date. They go to a really cool location where there is a bunch of light pools in rows. The setting with all the lights surrounding them illuminates the scene. In the scene they are having a fight. There is juxtaposition between the argument they are having and the romantic setting they are in. The camerawork is interesting because it gets up close to the couple. The camera follows the Natalie pushing Ashton around through all the light poles. There are many collisions between them and the poles because all the light poles are so close together. The camera captures this chaos perfectly and it makes you feel as if you were in the fight with them.