Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Reformed Doorknob Idea
So we just met to talk about our doorknob and we have reformed our idea a bit. We made ours much more of a thriller now. So we have Leesa who is going to her first day on the job at a large corporation. Along the way she hears a man names Stanley Kirkland has gone missing. She meets with the CEO who explains he needs trust in his employees. She's shown to her office where a lady is franticly cleaning out the office and placing things in a cardboard box. As she makes her way out of the office we see the name tag on the top of the box, it reads Stanley Kirkland. Leesa finds a flash drive in the empty desk and tries to catch the women and give it to her before she's gone but fails. She's tempted to see what's on the flashdrive and holds out until she finally gives in. When she inserts the flash drive it sends a signal to the CEO who watches her every move as she riffles through the files on the drive that pin the company to horrible crimes. Lunch time comes around Leesa puts the drive in her purse and heads for her car. Before she gets in she's cloraformed. She wakes up in a white room yada yada she trapped in there The CEO comes in and tells her what situation shes in. She stays in there for a while until she gives up on life, the only hard object in the room is a doorknob so she bashed her head against it until she dies. Then the whole movie rewinds and starts from beginning a new employee walks in to the front desk to start her new day on the job, she will suffer the same fate as Leesa if she makes the wrong move.
I like the idea in general, it is more streamlined, has a simpler clear premise and the recurring crime makes it a kind of circular story. And as a thriller you can really take advantage of a "film-noir" look that can be visually exciting.
ReplyDeleteBut I hate the idea of her killing herself by bangin her head against a doorknob! You should try to find a more oblique and interesting way to involve the doorknob instead of doing what most "doorknob" films end up using as a "solution". For example, the simple fact that she opens a door (to her new office) that will ultimately result in her death is in my view enough to tie it together. The doorknob seals her destiny as a symbol (it is the last door she will open).
Specially if there is a close-up of her hand struggling a little bit with the doorknob when she goes in for the first time, perhaps we hear an ominous crack as if something is broken, a sound we can hear again towards the end when a thug (instructed by the CEO) breaks her neck in an alleyway as she leaves the office. (just thinking out loud but you get the idea.)