Zodiac

2007

DIRECTOR:     David fincher

He directed films such as “ Fight club, Seven, The game, Panic room, gone girl, girl with the dragon tattoo"

Genre

• Thriller                                                                        

Sub-genre

• Crime
• Serial Killer
• Biographical

Main characters in zodiac

• Mark Ruffalo
• Jake Gyllenhaal                                                                
• Robert Downey Jr

(But this does not happen in Zodiac)

  How does Zodiac play with serial killer convention?  

1. There is no closure - in real life because they never caught the Zodiac.
2. In the beginning it should be calm - Equilibrium - however Zodiac starts with a killing.
3. The investigators are never in control.

Narrative Range

Unrestricted

The audience knows more and sees more than the character.                     BIG PICTURE

• Killings, the killer never gets caught, 1968-1990.

                                                                                                

Restricted                                                                                                             CONFLICT           

The characters and the audience learn the story at the same time.

• Details of case
• Arthur leigh Allen becomes a suspect                                             DETAIL
• How complicated the investigation was

BIG PICTURE - HIGH ANGLE SHOTS

(often establishing)

• Reminds us of the plots bigger picture
• Omnipotent (godlike)
• Cold, unemotional, clinical, floating.

DETAIL - CLOSE UP SHOTS

Inside of cars - trapped

Point of view - the case “evidence” - not being able to see the big picture

GRAYSMITH

• Obsessed
• Boy scout
• Unique
• Nice guy
• Disorganised
• Method; Madness

 

TOSCHI

• No nonsense
• Stylish
• Experience
• Balance
• Rules
• Procedure