Inspiration for story

After researching 10 different thriller opening sequences, I searched typical plots in thriller movies and complex plots used in recent plots. Eventually, our group came to a decision that we would create an original story with influences from many famous thrillers and different themes introduced in thrillers. These influences included:

Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2


The much anticipated two-part thriller from Quentin Tarantino introduced a nonlinear narrative style and craftmanship to modern filmmaking. The films are an epic-length revenge drama that captured the audience's attention with the ambigous plot throughout. From the very beginning, the plot unfolds with The Bride out for revenge against her husband Bill. We liked the narrative and plot to these films but wanted to take a different approach with the revenge motive from the protagonist and decided in turn to have the protagonist fighting for life in the title sequence. This was the same in Kill Bill Vol.1, expect the protagonist was seen tortured in the title sequence from an unseen antagonist.

From the Kill Bill Vol.1 title sequence and ours, you can pick similarities between both with the ambigous plot. Both have unseen antagonists to engage the viewer and a tortured protagonist.

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity started off the successful series based on a amnesiac spy who attempts to uncover his true identity amidst a conspiracy within the CIA. We liked how the ambigous plot grabbed the viewer's attention and the protagonist himself being fairly unknown to the audience as you don't see the true side to him. We wanted to portray this similar effect in our title sequence, with only the audience knowing the protagonist's name and little back story.