Over the years, TV, books and film have seen a range of detective characters as murder mystery is a very popular viewer experience. Memorable characters such as Sherlock, Dexter, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and so on have adapted from books with great description of the characters background, personalities, looks etc and it is difficult to create a memorable Murder Mystery detective or catalyst to the situation without coming from a book. For our characters, this means we can take characteristics of various memorable characters and put them into one for our own detectives and killers.
In the film, Se7en, the film that inspired us to take our title sequence down this route, has two very memorable detectives; Detective Mills, who is played by Brad Pitt and Detective Somerset who is played by Morgan Freeman. It is the character of Mills that I find to mostly fit best with the character we wish to create as he is a detective who needs to prove himself in a big murder case and he is passionate about this case and it takes him over the edge.
The fact that Mills has a wife and love-life helps the viewer feel sympathetic and connect to the character and his situation. This is what we will aim to portray to the audience in our title sequence; being done through images of his wife and other varying forms of media.
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