Harry Buckle - Frist Thriller Reseach - The Dissapperance of Alice Creed

The opening five minutes of this movie shows so much about these two characters without showing as much as the spectator may want to see. It is clear at the start that these two men lack in morals, as they break into and steal a van from an airport parking lot. Yet, the removal of both dialogue and any clear actions of an antagonist makes the spectator continue to wonder what they are doing. As the scene goes on, they continue to show the spectator that they do not have a problem with stealing whatever - and, judging by the title of the film, whoever - as they steal a license plate from a broken down car. The spectator would, by now, put together the two acts of theft and figured out that these men don't want to be caught doing something illegal with the van. After a while, they are shown in an torn up flat and begin their make-over. As they nail, drill and remove broken furniture, the two men do it together in unison. accompanied with the continued, eerie silence between the two, shows that they are clearly very close. The preparation of the flat and the van is mundane to say the least, then, once they have seemed to have finished, their true objective is blindly clear, as one of them packs ski masks, masking tape, hand-cuffs and even a gun, into a bag. The display of items that would normally be seen in an evidence bag or scattered in a crime scene, reassures these two as the antagonists.

In conclusion, although this scene lacks in, a clear protagonist or antagonist , dialogue or even anything that could be considered "heart-pumping" excitement for the majority of it, all the actions of the two characters that we are following helps set the story up well enough to help the spectator establish their role in the film.