Thursday 1 October 2015

Psychopath Character - Influences and Ideas

Every film of this genre has a character who is the 'crazy' one ie the one that goes off the script and does something insane/stupid. Our character would be the one who would be supporting the idea of killing the girl. We should aim to have the actor be quite rough and look slightly strange however this may prove to be quite challenging.

As Reservoir Dogs is a primary source of influence for us the character in this scenario is Mr Blond, played by Michael Madson. Mr Blond is the crazy character who starts shooting people in the shop and kidnaps a police officer. He is also the one who tortures him, as we are aiming to have our film a 15 we wouldn't quite go to the extent of torture and instead would just have the girl tied up. You don't quite get a distinctive psychopathic feel when you immediately see Mr Blond however when you actually see how he acts you certainly get the feeling that he's crazy. This shows us that it's not essential to have the crazy character look crazy its more how he acts.



Ezra Miller is an actor who has played a psychopathic character in 'We need to Talk About Kevin' in this film he plays an unhinged teenager who has been sent to prison after committing a massacre at his school. Our character most likely wouldn't be quite that psychopathic and instead be more like Mr Blonde who has his moments of madness. Ezra Millar is a good actor to look it however as ideally this character will have to be slightly older, mid 20s but that may not be possible and therefore we would need an actor who would be our age but look slightly older, therefore this film could be used as inspiration for an actor. The actor most likely wouldn't have to brilliant as he wouldn't have that dialogue and instead would have a lot of shots during the montage as he would be at the centre of the conflict. 

De Niro in Taxi Driver is another unhinged character who we should definitely take influence from. Being an war veteran he is proficient with weapons, which our character should have. De Niro in this film is also a similar age to the character which we are looking for and has a similar look to the one that I am imagining, a strong and tough looking male.


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