grim film narrative

10
Film Narrative GRIM

Upload: tonym17

Post on 24-Jul-2015

70 views

Category:

Education


2 download

TRANSCRIPT

Film Narrative

GRIM

Shannon Gunn – Lust, Underage Sex, acts of adultery and

sexually provocative – Jack despises Shannon for her worldly sins. Jack’s second victim.

Sophie Griffin – Blasphemous – Offends Jack the most, Jack’s third victim and most gruesome murder.

Rachael Forrest – Vainglory – Over boasting and high levels of pride, thinks that she’s better than the others. Jacks fourth victim.

Sasha Cimino– Envy - Envied Shannon, wanted Shannon's world, and despite Shannon's death earlier on, she isn't considerate of her, openly admits that she’s happier now that she wasn't around. Jack’s fifth victim.

Martin Bobb-Semple – Wrath- his hatred of Jodie, and tussle with Jack angers the killer into murdering him.

Joe Fines - after several disappearances, he finally understands Chloe’s cries, and works with her to defeat Jack.

Chloe Abrams – Final girl, defeats Jack.

Targeted Characters (Trailer)

After witnessing the traumatic death of both his parents, a then 6 year old Jack is found asleep on the street by a group of women who take him back to a monastery. After 2 years at the monastery he is fostered by Phillip and May Grimshaw.

As he grew into his teenage years, the pain of his departed parents grew larger. A suicidal Jack is then sent to a therapist by his foster parents in order to help him climb out of his depression; Jack with nothing to lose is advised by the psychiatrists to pay a visit to the women at the monastery and look deeper into Christianity as this is something he seems to be quite interested in.

Back Story

Jack starts to pay several weekly visits to the monastery which helps with his depression. Meanwhile his interest in religion steadily grows. The Grimshaw's decide to move away from Berkshire (the place where Jack grew up and lost his parents) and into the big city of London for a fresh start. At his request, Jack transfers to the St Bernard's Catholic Grammar school due to it being a catholic school, in order to continue his education, and growth in faith.

During his first few days at the school, jack realises that the school isn't as holy as he expected it to be. He instantly believes that the place is dripping in sin with pupils behaving inappropriately and sinfully.

Jack decides that it is his responsibility to rid the school of sin. This provokes a killing spree from the deeply disturbed and deeply religious Jack.

Typical of a slasher we see teenage characters being dispatched one by one by Jack.

Jack will wear a cloak-like costume that is reminiscent of that worn by the grim reaper.

Innocent, naive, intelligent and resourceful. She doesn't have many friends at the school, and would prefer to be alone rather than to associate and socialise with the rest. Isn't acknowledged or noticed by the popular students.

Singled out for her weird dress sense, music taste and her “1990’s” fringe, she is ignored by the popular girls and simply missed by the popular boys.

She has a bad ‘gut’ feeling about Jack Grimshaw the second she makes eye contact with him and is first to notice and discover that he is responsible for the missing students. Attempts to tell the others about Jack but nobody listens as she is labelled the “weird kid”. Been a pupil at St Bernard's since year seven yet many pupils don't know her name.

Final Girl

After four students go missing, her cry starts to get noticed by another student named Devante and they team up in an attempt to stop Jack.

Jack soon finds out about her plans to stop his “cleansing” and decides to eradicate the final girl in order to finally be able to stop what he had started.

The final show down ends in a bloody mess in which the final girl standing victorious over Jack’s ruined body.

The movie is set in a school, due to most of Jacks

Setting

InspirationSilas is a fictional antagonist

character in the 2006 movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’, he is an albino monk of catholic faith, who practices sever corporal mortification. We wanted Jack to replicate Silas due to it not being a formality in slasher movies, instead of making the killer a delusional/mentally unstable character, we decided to make him one that is highly religious, but one that loses his mind when he realises that the real world isn't what its suppose to be. We took Silas’ character made him extreme.

Other inspiration would be the Grim Reaper and Catholic Monks. We got the name Jack GRIMshaw from the GRIM Reaper. Just like the grim reaper, Jack wears a black cloak with a hood and causes the death of his victims. Jack gains this ‘Angel of Death’ persona through his heavy religious beliefs and also his own, as he does believe that he is doing good in ridding the school of sin, but in also in the gory way he kills his victims. Catholic Monks would also be a source of inspiration as Jack got his monk costume from when he was younger and living with nuns at the monastery. His strong religious beliefs would replicate those at St Pachomios.