Protagonists
Teddy Daniels / Andrew Laeduss (Leonardo DiCaprio) - Shutter Island
The feature which interests us about this protagonist is that he doesn't know anything about his real self. He is living a lie which makes the audience doubt the entire film and leave everything in suspense. The twists to this character don't follow the usual requirements of a protagonist, making this character unique which is a feature we would like to portray in our main character.
Susie - The Lovely Bones
The vulnerability of Susie is something we would like to portray in our main character. She is easily led as she is a child, and her inexperience and immaturity gets her killed. This vulnerability is portrayed in a way where she thinks she is confident, when really she knows nothing about the dangers of the world. This carelessness is something we would also like to show in our main character, as it adds an element of surprise to the audience and depth to the character.
Sarah - The Descent
Although this character is portrayed to be weak at the start, she proves herself by staying alive in the caves with the blood-thirsty monsters. Her character development is something we would like our character to portray. Even though our film is a short trailer, we have thought about what would happen in the actual film and we would like our character to develop into a stronger character as she originally seems. The strong willed nature of Sarah is also something we have been looking at as inspiration for our main character.
Antagonists – Freddy Kruger
"In April 1941, a young girl was accidentally locked in the sanitarium of Westin Hills Psychiatric Institute in Springwood over the holidays. The inmates kept her hidden for days. She was raped... hundreds of times. When she was found, she was barely alive. That girl was Amanda Krueger, her child was Freddy - the bastard son of a hundred maniacs.
"Frederick Charles Krueger was born in February 1942 and was shifted from one foster home to another throughout his childhood, learning nothing but torment and hatred along the way.Called Freddy, he was constantly ridiculed for his infamous and brutal conception. It was then he started murdering small animals, and as he grew into adulthood, he turned his masochistic behavior on himself. After suffering abuse from his stepfather for many years, he brutally murdered him with a razor.Freddy finally returned to his hometown of Springwood and was disgusted to see the picture of a perfect town, full of happy families in their tidy homes. With that jealousy and disgust building up inside him Freddy became one of themost notorious child-killers alive. Finding employment maintaining the boilers at an old steam-plant on the outskirts of town, Freddy would settle down and have a family of his own, all the time plotting his revenge upon life itself.Whilst working in the plant he went on to construct the first of his imfamous 6 inch bladed gloves. Made from and old glove and four razor sharp blades that he attached to the glove with interlocking metal sections and rivets he began his killing spree, known as the Springfield Slasher. From 1975-1977 he kidnapped and murdered 23 children.Freddy's downfall came when his wife discovered the bladed glove and a multiple of newspaper clipping about the child murders in their basement. Despite her tearful assurances that she would not tell what she knew, the paranoid Freddy would go on to throttle his wife in front of his horrified daughter.Soon afterwards, Freddy was arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and the missing children of the town. However, in their haste, the bungling officers forgot to read Freddy his rights, he was unexpectedly freed on a technicality.Seeing the threat he posed, the court placed his daughter in an orphanage.The enraged parents of Springwood, OH then took the law into their own hands. They followed Krueger to a building where he took his victims and ignited it with gasoline into a raging inferno. However, no one expected the end result of this act. Freddy's soul was so corrupt that it was decided he could be of use to dream demons imprisoned in hell. When he was promised eternal life in the world of dreams, Freddy could hardly refuse. Ever since that night, Krueger has taken his revenge on the parents of Springwood by stalking their children through their dreams. Each time he is able to twist what would seem to be a normal dream into his own brutal imagination's delight of terror. Some children have escaped thinking they have defeated him, only to have him rise again sometime later. There is only one documented case of Krueger meeting his match. While in hell, he was able to awaken Jason Voorhees, of Camp Crystal Lake infamy. Freddy was then able to use Jason to strike fear into the kids of Elm Street. This plan backfired when the masked killer could not be shut down. This led to a big confrontation both in the dream and real world. Freddy still lingers in the pits of hell with no indication if or when he will return."
This back story is something that inspired our murderous antagonist. In the Nightmare on Elm Street films, the full back story of Freddy Kruger is hinted at but never fully explained. The fact that he has an unbelievable back story gives an insight on why he does what he does; almost trying to justify it. This is how we want our killer to be portrayed, as if they've been twisted by a horrific background.
Jigsaw – Saw
He is different from most serial killers as in the Saw films he does not kill his victims directly, but instead relies on various lethal traps in which he places his victims. In most cases, they must subject themselves to excrutiating pain or trauma to escape, and prove their will to live. We liked the idea of Jigsaw's motivs for killing, as there is always a reason for him putting them into traps and situations where they have to make a "choice", be it an insurance broker who wont give him life insurance or a drug user who's hit rock bottom. We will use similar back stories with our character, not just killing meaninglessly as this feature gives the characters more depth and makes them more interesting.
John Doe – Se7en
The pattern to John Doe's killing was of interest to us. On further analysis, John Doe's killing sequence links in with the biblical seven deadly sins, which the whole film is based on. The seven deadly sins are lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. Each of the victims in the film have committed one of these sins, and killed in a way which reflects the particular sin they've committed. This complex way of killing inspired our character, and the link to the bible is of interest.
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