What Is The Difference Between Connected And Old Boy And The American Blockbuster Movie

Abstract:
The primary purpose of this extended essay was to contrast and analyze Hollywood and Asian blockbuster films. The films in question are “Cellular” and “Connected”, and Old Boy (Korean) and Old Boy (America). “Connected” and Old Boy were remakes of the original, though one was remade in Asia and the other in America, respectively. I watched and compared them to dissect why Hollywood bred films continue to be more effective than others in their deliverance. As these films are remakes of each other, it means that they share the same inspiration. With this, it can be safe to say that the analysis was accurate, as they have to follow the same structure. Though the films examined shared a common inspiration, the outcome was very different,
American writers have largely mastered the art of writing great scripts for movies. These writers have developed up to the point that they are very articulate in understanding how to satisfy a movie audience. The American writers understand that a movie script has to be written in a completely different way from theatre or a novel. One of these writers is named John Truby. John Truby wrote the 22-step model, which is earning him fame. Prior to John Truby’s model, there was the more ‘conventional’ three-act paradigm of movie storytelling. Many like John himself, continue to be critical about this method because of how static and dictated it appears to be. In essence the three acts are an explicit start, middle, and end. In between these acts there are ‘pinch’ points that dictate where an event or plot point should be. The three-act structure even goes as far to guide how many pages should be in every act, 30 for the start, 60 for the middle, and 30 for the end. John believes that the three-act structure “albeit a lot easier to understand than Aristotle, is hopelessly simplistic and in many ways just plain wrong” ("Sample Text for Library of Congress Control Number 2007023459."Sample Text for Library of Congress Control Number 2007023459. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.). Which is why John’s new 22-steps in writing is becoming increasingly more popular throughout the American
This engagement is caused by a number of things, however the most prominent of differences between the “Cellular” and “Connected” films was the pacing and dialogue. One of the things that can be created by pacing and dialogue in a film, is suspense. An example of suspense is when Jessica was locked in the room with no escape. Only mere moments later, Ethan barges into the room with a sledgehammer, and the audience is genuinely shocked and surprised. The audience starts to fear for the safety of Jessica as he slowly zones in on her. The audience not knowing what his intent is causes this fear of safety: Does he plan to hurt her? He then uses the sledgehammer to smash the only useable phone behind her. Because of this event, an emotional bridge was made between Jessica and the audience. Suddenly the ‘role’ of rooting for Jessica, allows them to remain engaged throughout the entire movie. In order to create suspense, the audience had to have no idea what Jason Statham was aiming for. David R. Ellis was able to create this suspense by using ambiguity in his shot choice, everything shown on the screen up until the smashing of the phone, did not hint at the intent. In the remake (“Connected”), no suspense was created with the captors breaking the only phone. Before the captors entered and smashed the phone, Benny Chan hinted at the phone by establishing it as a subject of several sequences. Then, when the captors