The opening of the film that we have been planning and will perform begins with a very professional experienced gangster, ‘Smith’ carrying out an illegal deal with a man, John Doe, who just so happens to be the son of the boss (who we never see till the end) from a large criminal organisation. They attempt to swap briefcases whilst John Doe is rambling arrogantly to Smith, receiving only a passive face in return, this builds the tension along with the flashing images of a gun being loaded, by an anonymous gloved hand. At the beginning of this opening we follow John Doe through the building of the car park listening to his thoughts through an internal monologue, by listening to this we get an insight into his character as an arrogant, over confident idiot, this is why Smith shoots him. However the audience watching the first scene will not know who shoots who as in the end of the opening the screen will go black and you will hear a gun shot to show it is the end of this scene, this adds the mystery and intrigue needed in a thriller film.
The act of murdering John Doe in the first scene ignites a war between Smith who works alone and the gang of the dead mans father. Smith who evades all The Boss’s attempts to kill him but gets seriously wounded by a rogue bullet takes himself to the only person he trusts and the only person who knows his name an old friend from his childhood called Myles Price who removes the bullet and patches him up (like in Ronin by John Frankenheimer). However it appears the Boss has had him followed as many of his cronies turn up at Myles’s house and during the fight that ensues Myles is shot leaving the impression on the audience and Smith that he is dead Smith flees.
After this Smith is out for revenge and becomes even more ruthless and efficient at killing. On torturing many of The Boss’s men which leads him on a path leaving behind a trail of corpses (like in Man on Fire by Tony Scott) he discovers what building and the room in a high rise wealthy building in London where only the best of The Boss’s men are allowed as many of the men The Boss employs have no idea who he is. Smith sets up a sniper rifle on the roof of the building next to the Boss’s lair. (This is an excellent opportunity to get some nice footage through the sniper target finder). Through the shot finder we see a man's (The Boss’s) back, he turns round but we never see his face and it switches to a shot of surprise on Smith’s face. He expertly and quickly packs away his gun and we watch him from above run down the internal staircase of the high rise building. Smith enters the Boss’s Lair quickly killing the security guards and we see him walk (fast) down a long corridor (vanishing points – signifies the long road he has taken to get to this point) he bursts into the room he has just been looking at through the rifle. We see an over the shoulder shot of Smith holding a gun at the man in the chair who we can only see the back of and we then hear a little chuckle coming from the man in the chair (wearing really expensive suit) we hear the man talking to smith about that’s the way the world works and how elusive Smith has proven to be, whilst saying this he gets up and walks around the room to a bottle and pours two drinks whilst all the time smith is pointing the gun at his head. The man finishes talking and the audience see that The Boss is actually Myles!
Sitting back down smith starts to talk saying that he never really did know who Myles was and on hearing this Myles reveals that he found out who Smith was after years of digging and that the whole deal (from the beginning was a set up and that John Doe was not actually his son but that the storyline gave him an excellent chance to kill Smith and he is about to explain who Smith is and why he wants him dead when Smith Shoots him in the head and we see him walk back down the corridor and we hear an internal monologue talking directly to the audience saying that he could not have us knowing who he really was (like in Layer Cake by Matthew Vaughn), then on come the credits after a shot of him looking directly at the camera, like it is a person, this involves the audience and makes it clear that he is talking to us.
The act of murdering John Doe in the first scene ignites a war between Smith who works alone and the gang of the dead mans father. Smith who evades all The Boss’s attempts to kill him but gets seriously wounded by a rogue bullet takes himself to the only person he trusts and the only person who knows his name an old friend from his childhood called Myles Price who removes the bullet and patches him up (like in Ronin by John Frankenheimer). However it appears the Boss has had him followed as many of his cronies turn up at Myles’s house and during the fight that ensues Myles is shot leaving the impression on the audience and Smith that he is dead Smith flees.
After this Smith is out for revenge and becomes even more ruthless and efficient at killing. On torturing many of The Boss’s men which leads him on a path leaving behind a trail of corpses (like in Man on Fire by Tony Scott) he discovers what building and the room in a high rise wealthy building in London where only the best of The Boss’s men are allowed as many of the men The Boss employs have no idea who he is. Smith sets up a sniper rifle on the roof of the building next to the Boss’s lair. (This is an excellent opportunity to get some nice footage through the sniper target finder). Through the shot finder we see a man's (The Boss’s) back, he turns round but we never see his face and it switches to a shot of surprise on Smith’s face. He expertly and quickly packs away his gun and we watch him from above run down the internal staircase of the high rise building. Smith enters the Boss’s Lair quickly killing the security guards and we see him walk (fast) down a long corridor (vanishing points – signifies the long road he has taken to get to this point) he bursts into the room he has just been looking at through the rifle. We see an over the shoulder shot of Smith holding a gun at the man in the chair who we can only see the back of and we then hear a little chuckle coming from the man in the chair (wearing really expensive suit) we hear the man talking to smith about that’s the way the world works and how elusive Smith has proven to be, whilst saying this he gets up and walks around the room to a bottle and pours two drinks whilst all the time smith is pointing the gun at his head. The man finishes talking and the audience see that The Boss is actually Myles!
Sitting back down smith starts to talk saying that he never really did know who Myles was and on hearing this Myles reveals that he found out who Smith was after years of digging and that the whole deal (from the beginning was a set up and that John Doe was not actually his son but that the storyline gave him an excellent chance to kill Smith and he is about to explain who Smith is and why he wants him dead when Smith Shoots him in the head and we see him walk back down the corridor and we hear an internal monologue talking directly to the audience saying that he could not have us knowing who he really was (like in Layer Cake by Matthew Vaughn), then on come the credits after a shot of him looking directly at the camera, like it is a person, this involves the audience and makes it clear that he is talking to us.
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There are lots of good ideas here. Could you express them more concisely? Remember, a synopsis is meant to be brief and summative.
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