Research and Planning: Narrative

The Sixth Sense

- The film is about a child psychologist, Malcolm Crowe, who on the night of receiving an award for his work is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient.

-After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a boy with the same illness as the ex patient.

-The boy "sees dead people" which turns out to be a vital factor in the notorious twist
at the end of the film (Malcolm turns out to have been dead the whole time).

- He spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole)

- He is Cole's only hope.


Taken

-The film is about ex special forces agent Brian Mills who creates a whole new life for himself just to be closer to his daughter. However for her birthday she takes a trip to Paris with a friend and unfortunately is kidnapped.

-We follow Bryan's journey as he attempts to find his daughter using all his skills and experience.

-He goes through various brothels and finds all kinds of different evidence which gives him the information he needs to find his daughter.

-Eventually he's lead to an illegal sex trafficking auction in which he sees his daughter selling for a lot of money.

-He tails the rich Arab who has bought her and eventually through fights and action finds her, kills basically all her kidnappers and saves the day.


True Romance

In this film we follow the journey of Clarence Worley who on the night of his birthday meets a girl in the cinema called Alabama Whitman. The next day the girl reveals to him that she is a call-girl who was hired to have a one night stand with him but has fallen in love with him. The next morning they get married and Clarence goes to collect some clothes from the club where she worked.

Alabama's pimp Drexl Spivey is unhappy with the situation and beats up Clarence, as he turns away he kills both Drexl and his partner leaving the building with the wrong suitcase. In this suitcase was bags of cocaine, after realising what he had taken Clarence and Alabama decide to go and sell the drug to Clarence's friend Dick, an aspiring actor hooked on drugs, so they can travel to Mexico.

Little do they know the owners of the drug are the Sicilian Mafia and they want to reclaim it.