Thriller Research // Essex Boys Opening Shot Analysis

Essex Boys Opening Analysis by LarsosMedia

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Go Watch // Quadrophenia

"Mod is youth subculture of the early to mid-1960s, Focused on fashion and music. The subculture has its roots in a small group of London-based stylish young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz."

Quadrophenia By Franc Roddam, is a highly influential youth drama film following the highly notorious mods and rockers subculture of the 1960s. Produced and scored by classic mod-affiliated rock band the who, the film follows Jimmy, a mod living in 1965 London, who by day works as a mail-boy at a publishers and at night parties and drops pills with his friends all members of a mod gang, united by a taste in suits and R&B. The film not only works as a hedonistic, portrait of one of the most celebrated subcultures in the world, but also as a commentary of youth identity and materialism. There are many iconic moments within the film from the infamous "We Are The Mods!" scene to the ending upon the white cliffs, this film is exemplary of how to make a high quality youth drama, a film I believe anyone who has ever been or still is a teenager should watch.

Thriller Research // No Country For Old Men (2007)





"In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart. - --IMDB user Kenneth Chisholm

No Country For Old Men (2007)

Written and directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Starring: Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

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Thriller Research // Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

"Richard returns home from military service to a small town in the Midlands. He has one thing on his mind: revenge. Payback for the local bullies who did some very bad things to his brother. At first his campaign employs guerrilla tactics, designed to frighten the men and put them ill at ease. But then he steps up his operation, and one by one these local tough guys are picked off by the terrifying angel of vengeance that Richard has become."

Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

Dir: Shane Meadows

Screenplay: Paddy Considine & Shane Meadows

Starring: Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch

Thriller Research // Battle Royale (2000)

"Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die" -from IMDB

Battle Royale (2000)

Dir: Kinji Fukasaku

Screenplay: Kenta Fukasaku

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda

Go Watch // The Perverts Guide To Ideology

"Ideology-a set of conscious and unconscious ideas that constitute one's goals"

Starring Slovenian philosopher Slazoj Žižek, this film presents some really interesting ideas on more than a few things, particularly related around 2 main points 'Ideology' and 'How cinema reflects Ideology' . It is incredibly dense and often hard to follow, with so many ideas flying around at once, but if you have the desire and patience as well as 2 hours+ to watch then try and make sense of it, you will find a very rewarding and actually kinda funny critique on many of the hidden messages pervaded within and outside the world of cinema.