Modern Thrillers

"Brick":The opening of this thriller is in my opinion very effective as it gets the audience to want to continue watching so they learn more about the characters as the sequence itself is dark and has an underlying blue tone suggesting it is cold and sad it also feels quite creepy as we see somebody crouching down and staring at the body of the girl in the stream.we then at the end see what appears to be the girl at school or at least someone withe the same or her armbands, this leads the viewer to several conclusions.



"Zodiac":this thriller opening gives us more to look at than "Brick" it begins very calmly with the 4th of july celebrations and fireworks, but as the two characters meet up we see that more may be happening than independence day celebrations we see that she is a married woman and the boy she is meeting with is not her husband, they then drive off to a deserted road, they then get shocked as a car pulls up to them but the worry is for nothing as the car ends up driving past, there is another point when a car slowly drives past them however and after reruns and parks behind the pair the boy thinks it could be a police officer but as the person walks towards the boy starts talking but we get a shock when the person pulls out a silenced firearm and shoots the boy and the woman.

"No country for old men": the first one and a half minutes of the film are just shots of the desert  and narration it is straight after this at around the 1:36 mark that we see any signs of life we see a sheriff taking a handcuffed man into a police cruiser, a few seconds later the sheriff places a pressurised air canister into the front of the car they then drive off and the narration ends at 2:15 when we see the sheriff and the handcuffed man in the police station. the sheriff is on the phone whilst the man is sitting behind on a bench, the man gets up towards the end of the phone call and then proceeds to strangle the sheriff with his handcuffs all whilst having a crazed almost happy expression on his face. he then takes his canister and the sheriffs cruiser and pulls over another man driving on the empty road, it is then that we learn what the gas tank is as he uses it to blow a hole through the mans head again with the crazed expression on his face, from the short couple of minutes of the opening sequence we can already see so much about this man and it all draws you in making yo want to watch even more.

"A history of violence": the opening of this film is relatively calm, it just appears as though two men have stayed in a motel and the film begins with them coming out and packing up, it starts to get a little odd however when one of the men mentions staying out of the big cities, it is an odd thing for the man to say, whats wrong with the big cities? however as you follow on it gets clearer, the younger man hops into the car whilst the other goes to the motel office to return the key to their room, when he comes out he is holding some fabric and puts it in the bin, at first it seems like an innocent thing to do but the younger man asks him why he took so long and he responds "nothing... i had a little trouble with the maid but, every things fine now" agin this is an innocent statement and for the past 3 minutes seem normal, however the older man asks the younger to get some water saying theres a cooler in the back of the office, the younger man goes on his way to get some water, goes into the office and looks at some postcards and it is then after 4 minutes that we see the problem, the office has the dead bloody bodies of its workers and as the young man struts through we can tell that the older man was behind it, that cloth was probably used to clean blood of his hands and when he claims the the maid was a little trouble we can see that he meant killing her was a "little trouble".