Sunday, 9 January 2011
A Nightmare on Elm street trailer - Film report and narrative & structural timeline
Film Report -
Movie: A Nightmare on Elm street
Director: Samuel Bayer
Writers: Wesley Strick
Screenplay: Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer
Studio: New Line cinema
Conflict: A group of teenagers are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams and are killed one by one in reality named Freddy.
Complication: Nancy realises that she must stay awake and try uncover the truth behind this phantasmic killer Freddy Krueger.
Crisis: Nancy's father a police officer assumes she is going be crazy when she tells him, she realises she must bring this dream murderer out of dream land with out any help
Climax: When the victims of Freddy Krueger can not wake up!
Equilibrium: A man wakes up after falling asleep in a cafe.
Moment of disequilibrium: He finds himself alone, and discovers there's fire on the stove.
Period of disequilibrium: He unexpectedly gets attacked by Freddy, who slashed his hand.
Paradigms:
Villain - Freddy Krueger
Victims - Teenagers
Location - Bedroom
Time - Night
A group of teenagers are being stalked and tormented by Freddy Krueger in their dreams and in reality one by one they start having nightmares with Freddy attacking them; they cant tell what's real anymore the only way to survive is not to sleep.
They know they cant fall asleep, but it cant be helped.
"I cant wake up!!"
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