I have been working on a scene in which two characters (Guy & Girl) are in an apartment while a SWAT team is hunting them down. I have been playing with the idea of having the two characters talking while inter cutting the SWAT team converging on the apartment. The inter cutting would (hopefully) add a sense of tension. However, the reveal would not be that they get away, or are caught, but that the SWAT team has gone to the wrong apartment (the girl instead of the guy's apt).
However, I wasn't sure if this was playing with the audience too much.
I was struggling to think of another film in which this is done and the only instance I came up with was in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. In that sequence Scott Glenn is leading his FBI agents to a house to assault it. They inter cut that with scenes of Ted Levine inside the house. You clearly believe that they're about to take him down. Then, when they break down the door they find an empty house. CUT TO; Ted Levine opeing the door to find Jodie Foster all alone.
I like the reveal. But I can see how it could be too much of a fake out by the writer. Or does the success of this idea depend on the weight of the reveal? In SILENCE there's a sense that it's going to be all over. But then when you see Jodie Foster alone at the killer's house you're expectations of what could happen are thrown into the air.
I dunno, what do you guys think?
However, I wasn't sure if this was playing with the audience too much.
I was struggling to think of another film in which this is done and the only instance I came up with was in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. In that sequence Scott Glenn is leading his FBI agents to a house to assault it. They inter cut that with scenes of Ted Levine inside the house. You clearly believe that they're about to take him down. Then, when they break down the door they find an empty house. CUT TO; Ted Levine opeing the door to find Jodie Foster all alone.
I like the reveal. But I can see how it could be too much of a fake out by the writer. Or does the success of this idea depend on the weight of the reveal? In SILENCE there's a sense that it's going to be all over. But then when you see Jodie Foster alone at the killer's house you're expectations of what could happen are thrown into the air.
I dunno, what do you guys think?
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