1975- The Road to Revenge

My groups movie is about an officer (Clint Eastwood) in New York City who is told by the government to kill his long term partner because he has been dealing drugs. After not following through with the government's plan, they have his wife, kids and partner killed. In search of revenge out on a cross-country trip to get back at the government officials. Along the way he meets and recruits some young rebels who tag along with him and help him out with his endeavors.My group came up with this type of movie because we thought it had a lot of characteristics of a 70's film We wanted it to be more experimental and more realistic.We wanted to stretch the boundaries just like most of the 70's films did. We wanted to include was the idea of social commentary. This movie questions the government's authority over society and also personal morals and ethics. Clint Eastwood plays the antihero, which was a major 1970's characteristic.

 

We chose Clint Eastwood for this role because he has the experience of playing an antihero in Dirty Harry. Jon Voight was chosen for the role of Clint's partner because in past films such as Midnight Cowboy he did films with social commentary in them and he also was in films dealing with murder. Lastly, we chose Robert Shaw to play the main government official because he can play a mysterious, menacing character quite well. For our studio we chose Malpaso Productions. It was founded by Clint Eastwood in 1967. So we thought it would be smart to go with a studio he would be comfortable with and know well. Also, we chose this because Malpaso was linked with Warner Bros. Studios who is involved with larger movies and also ones that include social commentary. 

Our film is more than one genre, which was very common in 1970's films. We thought it would be mostly action/crime because of Eastwood's main plan to get his revenge against the law, but it can also be considered a drama since it deals with Eastwood's character's struggles and emotions.For our director we chose Ingmar Bergman who was a Swedish director, writer and producer.He made a lot of movies that deal with death, crime and betrayal. During his career, he got caught up in a alleged tax evasion which placed him in a similar criminal investigation as in our film. So he could put some of his own feelings into the movie and make an accurate character development. 

The rating we decided on for this film was M for mature. We chose this rating so we could appeal to a larger scale audience and be able to show more gritty scenes, but still get the audience we wanted.  Our main focus was editing because we wanted there to be jump cuts which showed more of the experimental side of the film that we wanted to show. Don Cambern wass our editor, he worked on Easy Rider in 1969.

I wouldn't change anything about our movie.