A 1995 American néo-noir crime psychological thriller.
The film follows the newly transferred David Mills and the soon-to-retire William Somerset, two homocide detectives who become deeply involved the the case of a sadistic serial killer whose meticulously planned murders correspond to the seven deadly sins.
We only meet the serial killer (Doe) 90 minutes into the 127 minute movie where he turns himself into the detectives and therefore has minimal dialogue in comparison to the other characters. Therefore this dialogue manages to have a large impact on the movie in a very small space of time.
Doe claims to represent the sin of envy, he was envious of detective Mills' normal life, and murdered his wife after failing to "play husband" with her. He then taunts Mills with the knowledge that his wife was pregnant, asking if Mills will kill him and become "Wrath". Somerset fails to control Mills as he shoots Doe serval times completing Doe's work, and essentially, letting the bad guy win.
From this dialogue, Doe builds up by speaking with a hateful tone and full of spite as he speaks about his victims to the two detectives in the car, he also continuously talks from the car to the end of the film. This makes the detectives engulfed in Doe's voice and thoughts becoming increasing annoying if not disturbing, when Somerset leaves Doe with detective Mills, Mills is left with Doe's calmer tone of voice but persistently taunting him, trying to push him over the edge (which he eventually does). Although Doe makes Mills' hatred towards him personal, we believe that if he didn't continuously talk to him, slowly building up the "wrath" Mills may not have killed him.
Dialogue - Sophisticated, educated
Tone of voice - Sharp, hateful - leeds into normal but persistent
2. Misery
A 1990 American psychological thriller film based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name.
Misery is about a psychotic fan who holds her favourite author captive and forces him to write her stories. Annie Wilkes is the 'psycho' in the movie is a nurse by training, she became one of the stereotypes of a nurse as a torturer and angel of death. Annie is cunning, brutal and devious who hides her malice behind a childish cheery facade. She despises profanity, to the point that she will fly into fits of rage if its used infant of her. She instead expresses anger with childishly strange phrases such as "cockadoodie", "mister man", "dirty bird", "dirty bird", "oogie", "fiddly-foof" and "rooty-patooties". She also has violent tantrums over insignificant matters.
We think we can echo her personality and characteristics in our short film, as Goldilocks is initially young, innocent and cheery but then sporadically shouts in tantrums and has a much darker personality. Both Annie and our version of Goldilocks we see as almost bipolar, but our Goldilocks won't be as depressed as Annie as she won't have the same bouts of depression or evidence of self-harming.
Dialogue - Childish
Tone of voice - Mix of soft, cheery, and shouting/hateful
3. The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film.
The Dark Knight is about when Batman (with the help of police lieutenant James Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent) raises the stakes on his war on crime by setting out to dismantle the remaining mafia group that plague the streets. The partnership proves effective, until the mob draw Batman into combat with stopping a criminal lunatic known as 'The Joker' from unleashing a reign of chaos that would make Gotham an anarchy.
The Joker is probably one of the most well known villains in the comic and movie world, apart from his physical appearance and acts of violence, The Joker's dialogue has a huge impact on the movie and makes his character. However, we feel that what he's saying is frightening and threatening etc. but its the way he speaks that makes The Joker as evil as he is.
His tone is very deep and dark, he sounds old in his voice due to the harshness, he does have elements of the childish-fun side of the joker in the comics with his laugh, but in the dark knight there is no humour, The Joker is sadistic and has no empathy, his version of humour and fun is causing chaos.
Dialogue - Threatening, simple in understanding
Tone - Dark and harsh
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