In the film, Trevor is extremely thin, there is almost nothing of him, and throughout the film other cha
racters tell him “if you were any thinner you wouldn’t exist.” He also has insomnia, and looks tired and beaten down at all times. He lives alone and his mind is weary from lack of sleep or some things that are troubling him. This is the kind of feel we want to give our main character. In the opening two minutes of our film, we want to create as many enigmas for the audience as possible. We want them to question everything, and one of the main talking points will be the main characters appearance and mannerisms.One of the main aspects about our character will be the look of his face, and how it will look sleepy, almost as if it has given up. Trevor has a similar look throughout ’The Machinist.’ Because of his body, his face looks very thin as well. His cheek bones are easier to see than in most people’s faces. This gives him the look of someone that is struggling with life. His eyes also look very hollow, and there are large bags under them from lack of sleep. This makes him
seem distant, as if he is barely there and barely alive at all. His facial expressions are usually of wonder, mystery and confusion. They make him seem like he doesn’t have anything figured out and that throughout his life he has always been searching for something. All these aspects of Trevor’s face make him a very interesting character, and the audience immediately wants to know more about him. This is the feeling we want to create with our main character. We want him to look exhausted, and make him seem troubled. The first shot of him is very important, and we want him to be covered in sweat, with obvious marks on his face, such as cuts, bruises or bags under his eyes, for example. This will automatically draw the audience in and make them wonder about him, before he has even said a word.Another aspec
t of Trevor is his body. It is abnormally thin and shocks the audience straight away when they see him. This is the kind of reaction we want the audience to get from our character. We want him to look isolated, and make it seem that even in a world with billions of people, he feels more alone than anyone. Trevor also feels alone, and as if his life is going nowhere, working a dead-end job and wondering why he cannot sleep. His body is almost a metaphor of his mind itself. It is ragged and weary, and was not what it once was. His body conveys his state of psychological unease throughout the film, a trait that we want to emulate in a similar way with our character. We want our character’s body to seem beaten down and as if the character himself can barely work it anymore. We don’t want to be as thin as Trevor, as we don’t know whether our character has insomnia, or another kind of paranoia or phobia. Since we are only filming the opening two minutes, we want to create as many enigmas as possible and leave the audience thinking about everything that we have displayed on screen.A further interesting aspect about Trevor is his clothing. Throughout the film, the clothes he wears seem to be much too big for him. This gives the audience the impression that he has had these clothes every since he was in better shape, and as he has got thinner, they have obviously become too big for him. They also look very old and battered, as if he has owned them for a long time. We want to create a similar look with the use of our chosen clothing
. We want our main character’s clothes to look unwashed, dirty, old and rough. They will probably have many holes in and will either be too big or too small for our character. We have chosen to use this kind of clothing to create more enigmas for the audience, and to also make our character look unique. But mostly, we have chosen to use these types of clothes because they fit our characters state of mind, and make him seem very lonely and perhaps poor. This will hopefully make the audience feel for him and attach themselves to him, and want to watch more to find out why his life is in such a mess. We want our character’s clothing to look different to Trevor’s however. We want the clothes to look cheap, and having wrong sizes will make it look like he cannot afford anything else, or that he doesn’t care what clothes he wears, as long as they keep him warm.To conclude, Trevor Reznik is a great character to study and analyse for our film because he has many interesting aspects about him, and was a big influence on us when we began creating the characters for our film. We feel that our character will create many enigmas for the audience, and make them want to watch the rest of the film to figure out why he is so different to other, simpler characters that are usually seen in films.
- Taylor Gladwin
This is Jack Nicholson in Batman (1989) directed by Tim Burton. He plays the joker and has been a big influence to the character that I play in our thriller. He has a boystorous attitude which is very contrapuntal to the situations he is in. In this release of Batman the joker looks very well dressed and smart which is not shown in the 2008 The Dark Knight where the Joker portrays an image he does not care about his appearance which implies his insanity. We have chosen to use the dress code like this but the character in the suit does not portray an image of insanity but shows a contrapuntal image to the other character who is pretty messed up. This shows signs of light for the character and how he could improve his life by turning over a new leave, as this is the first 2 minutes of the film we will not see all the other characters. Other characters could consist of being in a suit but dirty, grubby suit that another character may wear to show an evil side of Taylor’s characters hallucinations. This would take after the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.The character in the suit will be living up to the dominant ideology as he is a white, male, able bodied, Christian, heterosexual but we do not look into the characters family as this is not an aspect of our thriller movie.
The Jokers suit is also very vibrant which stands out in the low key lighting in the film. This has had an influence on our character in a suit but we do not have enough money to buy a suit and it will also destroy the impact we are trying to create on the character of a smart intelligent person. It would also not fit in with the room that we are using and we are trying to create a gloomy affect by using low key lighting.
- Brad Hart
The character that Brad play’s in our thriller is going to be based on the idea of a man wearing a suit who is unknown to the viewing audience. To get idea’s towards what type of character that Brad will be based around each of us have looked at past characters in other movies.
In the movie Constantine, the character of ‘Satan’ is played by the actor Pete Storemare. In the movie the character is wearing a plain white suit which is a contrast to the normal stereotype of the devil. Satan’s outfit is a mix between a smart suit but also the director has tried to make the character look evil by making him not wear any shoes. In out thriller we want to create an enigma by making one of the main character’s wear a suit. This will make the audience suspicious of the character because it is not normal for a man wearing a suit to be in the location where out thriller is set.
- Tom Winn
In our thriller, Bradley Hart plays an imaginary character that wears a suit throughout his role in the opening two minutes. This immediately is supposed to speak to the audience as contrapuntal and confusing showing the state of the house and the state of mind of Taylor Gladwin’s character in the thriller. Characters wearing suits in films has become popular in some thrillers of the modern day, this to which influenced us in our thriller. In four different films, the use of suits is used as a key part of the characters persona, as it is a contrast to what the audience would usually visualise what they would wear.
Hitman
(Xavier Gens, 2007) This film is about gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. The character Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) is one of the influences for Bradley Hart’s characte
r in our thriller. As he plays a hitman, audiences expect him to be dressed in black with ninja like equipment with him in secret compartments. In contrast to this however, he wears a back blazer, a white shirt and a distinctive red tie. This separates him from other forms of agent, as this not only make the audience take him more seriously, but it is how most audience would recognise this character (because he doesn’t take it off throughout the whole film), making his uniform just as important as he is. The way Agent 47 in this film behaves is similar to the James Bond films. Agent 007 is usually seen in a suit throughout his movies to symbolise upper class and social status, just like in the film H
itman.
- David Huxford
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