Collateral is a drama/crime thriller. It is about a cab driver who finds himself the hostage of an contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA, the cab driver must find a way to save both himself and one last victim. [For a full plot and cast list visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_(film)
In the opening scene of Collateral we see two smartly suited men, one wearing shades and both carrying briefcases. One as have deadly serious looking face whilst the other looks a little nervous, they both are walking through the crowds seemingly towards one another. They then stop once they reach one another and exchange words” alright” and put down the cases, then “yeah, what’cha doin’ in LA?” and they both pick up each others brief cases and walk off. This creates suspense as the audience have not been introduced to the characters nor do they know what’s inside the brief cases.
In the beginning of the movie we are introduced to three characters: Max, Annie and Vincent. There is a brief scene with Annie and Max, followed by the rest of the movie with Vincent. We see that Max and Vincent are in Max’s taxi driving along the road, this is after Vincent has killed a man and shoved him into the taxi boot. The police eventually stop them as the taxi’s windscreen is smashed and the headlights are broken. As the audience know what has previously happened they are curious to know if the Police will open the car boot. As the police are about to they get a call from informing them they must go to another location. This is suspenseful as tension was created whilst Max and the police were having a conversation about the car and as the audience did not know whether or not Vincent was going to get caught by the police.
Another suspenseful moment is when Max and Vincent are in the taxi after another killing and Vincent is telling max that life is not like “one day your dream will come true, you get old and die….” -Referring to a Disney lyrics. This is because Max’s dreams are to run a limo company, the sounds and lighting is used to create tension in the scene. Max then starts on a rant and starts to speed, whilst Vincent is telling Max to calm down or he’ll shoot, the both argue a little as Max continues to speed, this creates tension as the audience are unsure of what is happening, as Max then creates the taxi crash.
Taxi crash
Towards the end of the film, Max realizes that Annie is the last victim on Vincent’s list so he rushes to her office to warn her. We then see Annie is in the offices on the 16th floor, whilst Vincent is on another floor -where her office is searching for her- we then see Max outside who can see what is going on. He calls her and quickly explains that she is in danger. When she finally gets that Max is not joking she rushes to call the police, but the power is cut off by Vincent who breaks the power circuits. Vincent makes his way up to the same floor as Annie and starts to slowly look for her in the dark whilst Annie scrambles to the ground and starts crawling so she is not caught. Vincent finally finds Annie and is pointing a gun to her head when Max appears. The lighting, music and ticking time bomb creates suspense as the audience do not know if she is going to die and what is going to happen.
Max calling Annie
Annie talking to Max
Vincent searching for Annie in the offices in the dark
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