Trailer analysis: The Mummy (2017)

Genre: Action, Thriller
USP: Remake
Target Audience: 14-26 years old, 60% Male 40% Female
Plot: Explores come a cross an ancient tomb, releasing an uncontrollable evil in doing so.
Sound: "Paint it Black" by The Rolling Stones (Studio and Orchestral covers), Percussion hits synced up to actions show on screen
Inter-titles: 3 inter-titles "This summer", "Tom Cruise" and "The Mummy"
Effects: dip to black, lens flares
Voice overs: "This inst a tomb. Its a prison."
Pace: Fast>Slow>Fast

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Final Plot Synopsis

Ultio

It's the year 2018, jack is in an interrogation room we learn of his past, military based, he was discharged honourably for attempting to save the life of his friend in an ambush although he lost him regardless. They talk about a back ground where his father was killed in a work accident at the age of 8, and now only lives with his mother. He was kicked out of school for behaviour issues then joined the army at 16. He gets convicted of the murder of his fiancée, prints on the gun and blood on a shirt found at the crime scene (he has flash backs to moments from Jacks perspective. he sees multiple things such as a silhouette of a person, the gun and his fiancée), they sentence him to prison for life which is then, after 2 years released over false claims. On his release he's sat in an interview with a mysterious unknown officer who hands him a file with the title "leviathans" which gives him his first source to find his fiancée's murderer. Military background was an elite training programme for a specialist force where assassination were top target priorities, this gives him an enhancement on his revenge plot.  

He spends years after his prison sentence training and learning about the man who murdered his fiancée. He finds leads to a group under the name Leviathans. He finds people who have been affected by this group as well who have leads, they give him information. he spends time training and then heads off to find the mysterious group. As he arrives at the location. As the door swings open, jack pushes through the waves of mercenaries and criminals, Jack raises his gun and aims at the shooters head. Jack is then confronted by a mysterious man dressed in black (flashes back to the silhouette). the two begin to duel it out and are found to be evenly matched. As the two combatants fight Jack manages to gain the upper hand and manages to get a blow at his attacker. the shooter raises his head from the floor, he looks jack dead in the eyes, it's his best friend. Jack hesitates and asks why, and how. Jack is yelled at by his friend; from his point of view he was abandoned, tortured and interrogated, in the heat of the moment, Jack not being able to deal with the revaluation that his best friend who he had buried, had turned his life upside down due to his mistake shoots his friend. everything he'd lost was there in that moment, but the pain of realising it was his best friend who he thought had died was too much. It forced him to pull the trigger. He then turns the gun to himself screaming that he was the reason for all of the suffering, in his anger he picks up his gun and throws it away all his anger and pain comes out through his screams. He turns around to the sounds of sirens, looking round and realising there is no other way out; he reaches for his old friend's gun, pulls a picture from his pocket, of his fiancée, he says im sorry then pulls the trigger on himself. 

Synopsis

Brotherhood

The story is set in 2017 and follows a 17-year-old teenage boy James, joining a new collage. All seems like a normal day until he is then approached by a small group of large boys around the same age. The group of boys seem friendly at first until an insult is thrown at James. More insults are throw towards James until one of the boys start to push him around. the group then starts to harass James until he throws a punch of his own, the boys then see this as an opportunity to beat him up and proceed to do so, leaving James beat up and bloody on the ground. during this sequence we are shown brief flash backs of an older man standing over a terrified child (presumed to be James being abused by his Father). 

We then cut to James arriving to his class; late due to his run in with the bullies and is greeted by his teacher with a detention. During the detention we see James looking outside the window and sees the group of bullies doing the same thing to another kid as what they did to James earlier. As James walks out of the school he is again descended upon by the same bullies as before however they bring along the kid from before. Again, they start to harass James however James is first to lash out, this however is ended abruptly with one of the bullies punching him in the gut brining him to the ground. The bullies form a circle forcing the unnamed kid from earlier into the "ring" with James. The bullies then proceed to beat the two boys up. The two boys struggling from their ordeal help each other up and find a new friendship in their struggle, learning that this new kid is called Alex. 

There is a small time skip and we are shown that the two boys have now become very close friends. We are then shown a similar scenario to the first time we see the bullies however the two friends now have each other's backs and manage to fight off the bullies, amassing a crowd of other students. 

This new-found infamy as the two boys who beat the bullies is spread around the collage. James reviles in this new-found fame and quickly becomes popular whilst Alex is left behind. James is now introduced to a new group of friends. We can start to see a slow creep of corruption in James starts to become arrogant and cocky becoming what he despised the most about the bullies. His new friends start to turn James away from his friendship with Alex and learns to despise his old friend. 

Time goes on as James becomes the thing he hates until he is confronted by Alex. A massive fight ensues as old friends collide. The end results in James being left on the floor beaten and bruised as Alex walks away victorious, leaving his old friend to learn for his own mistakes  

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