UNKNOWN (2011)

Unknown (2011) 

Facts:

• Director Jaume Collet- Serra
• Writers Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Steven Cornwell (screenplay)
• Stars Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones. 

• Budget: $30,000,000(estimated)
• Opening Weekend: $21,856,389 (USA) (20 February)
• Gross: $130,786,397 (Worldwide)(12 May 2011)

This film is very recent, meaning that the quality of the film will be more improved then the other movies which I have posted. You can tell by the poster that its a recent film because of  the moderate editing of the poster. It looks like they have put in a lot of thought into editing the poster. In some way just looking at the poster you can tell that the movie is going to include some sort of action, especially with the actor Liam Neeson being involved.

 The movie is about a man who has forgotten his suitcase at the airport, as he returns back to go get it, it resulted in him being in a accident and being placed int a coma for 4 days. When he wakes up he tries to get his life back together but he cant, because another man has stolen his identity nobody recognizes who he is not even his own wife. With the help of a young women and old man he hopes to prove who he is.

The film has the essential characteristics of a good thriller, it includes so many different moments of tension. For example when he was in the hospital, and he had just come out of the MRI Scan. There was a person who tied him to the hospital and was trying to kill him. He was trying to reach for the scissors whilst the guy was in another room. This created a lot of suspense because everyone was wondering whether or not he was going to get the scissors in time to set himself free before the man came back into the room. The soundtrack had also caused a build up of tension, especially with the use of disoriented sounds.

There's also the scene they're in the Club trying to escape from the person who's trying to kill him. But this time he wasn't alone, he was accompanied by the young omen who had saved his life in the accident. This scene was effective because they had the use of loud booming soundtrack, disorientating the music causing a threatening atmosphere. The screen is also blacked out, the only thing we can mainly see is the shadows of other people. The viewer feels as confused as the main character does, because the don't understand how this man has lost his identity and why there are other men trying to kill him.

The movie definitely does include the Vladimir Propp, it includes the Hero, Villain, Helper, Princess and you could say it includes the False Hero. So in this case you could say that that the Hero is the first Martin Harris to star in the film, and the villain is Professor Rodney Cole who was the person who set up the whole thing, when he found out that Martin had forgotten his identity he put someone in replacement and tried to kill Martin off so that he wouldn't interfere.You could also say the Rodney Cole is also a false hero as he pretends to be Martins friend at first but then he tries to kill him. And you could say that the Helper is the old man before he died, he tried to help Martin identity  who he was but unfortunately he died which left Martin having find out who he was by himself. And the Princess in this movie will be the Eastern European girl Gina who Martin was very protective over.