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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

THR Homework: Casting

To think about casting, and the stars role in a film we were told to each think up a film plot of any genre.

Plot 8
The Ferry
This was my plot. I chose a thriller set in America, New Jersey and Manhattan. A girl called Hannah Paterson works at a detectives unit in New Jersey specialising in homicide. A new case comes in or a serial killer from Manhattan who meets his victims on the ferry, lures them back to his flat and kills them. This news is spread all over both cities and everyone is very panicked. Meanwhile Hannah is dating a guy called Dan, very suave and very kind. Hannah starts too find more and more clues about the 'ferry killer' and starts to get very attached to the case when a girl about her age who looked like her dies. She becomes more and more involved with the case and her boss Doug warns her to calm down about it as it s affecting her judgement. Also her boyfriend Dan is telling her to calm down because the case is starting to affect her home life. She has found out how he kills his victims and decides to go under cover on the ferry to try and catch him. However when she's on the ferry she realises it is her boyfriend Dan who is the killer. He kidnaps her to the basement of the ferry where there are loads of pipes and the scene is dark with steam around. Just as he is about to slit her throat Doug comes and shoots him in the back and kills Dan.
I think Angelina Jolie would be perfect in the role of Hannah Paterson as she is known for playing serious roles such as Girl Interrupted (1999) and Changeling (coming soon) and strong women roles such as Tomb Raider(2001, 2003), Wanted (2008), as well as police women roles such as Bone Collector (1999). She is a fantastic actress as shown by her Oscar win in 2000 for Girl Interrupted, and I believe she would play this part very well. I believe the role of 'Dan' should go to someone good looking and suave such as Leonardo DiCaprio. His role in Catch Me if You Can (2002) has made an impression on me and I believe his is perfect in this part.

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