Hay everyone, and welcome back.

If you haven't read the first post, you probably should, and if you have I'm going to jump right into where I left off since there haven't been any major developments in our work since then.

A lot of this film is centered around character development through dialog. This film is not going to be reliant on action although there is some through the hypothetical film, it is no where near the main focus and a majority of our attention  is focusing on creating suspense, tension, conflict by pinning our characters interests against each other and only using action at the high of tension. A great drama that has a similar style in terms of driving is the Netflix original series 'House of Cards'. The Widely popular TV show relies heavily on its great script, actors and characters in order to capture its audience and just like I plan to do it uses a limited amount of on screen action. Now of course House of cards is a TV show rather than a film and it also has a completely different premise that would be hard to relate to our own, so I'm going to focus more on the films that have used similar methods to tell a story that we're trying to.

One of my greatest inspirations, and my idol, Quentin Tarantino has written and Directed several film that more closely adhere to what were trying to do with our film. None other does that more than his 1994 classic 'Pulp fiction'. Much like our film Pulp fiction focuses on developing its characters using dialog and their interactions with Tarantino's messed up world. Pulp Fiction also tells this story out of chronological order and switches between different points in the film's timeline without warning allowing for the viewer to put together what order the story actually took place and we also plan to tell some parts of our story out of order. Our Film intro, which to this moment is still in the works, actually takes place more towards the middle of the film similar to the opening of 'Good Fellas'.

Although the three previous films  and one TV show do a great job of illustrating the kind of style I plan to deliver the closest example to the movie I want to make is the 1996 Coen Brother classic 'Fargo'. The film like all the others mentioned is Dialog based and relies on acting over action, however Fargo has a glaring difference from the previously mentioned. It's Darker, Much Darker. Although none of the previous examples are light happy tales, none of them really portray everyday life as brutally as it can truly be as Fargo does. We hope to capture the bleak and eerie feeling Fargo did such a great job portraying with our story and setting although they have some drastic differences with the film.Ill get more into how we plan to do that next time when we have our opening finalized. Ill see you all next item, and hopefully I'll have some concrete work to show you.