[Screenwriting] I am Legend (2007) Adegan dikepung zombie

Robert Neville yang kebal dan salah satu dari manusia yang selamat dari virus yang bersumber dari obat penyembuh kanker. Dalam kesendiriannya yang hanya ditemani seekor anjing betina yang bernama Samantha, ia berusaha untuk membuat obat bagi manusia yang mengubah menjadi zombi yang sensitif terhadap sinar matahari.

INT - House Lab. - Evening

CUT TO - ANGLE ON
Robert berjalan menuju ruang kaca, memeriksa zombie yang menjadi eksperimennya, terkejut bahwa hasil eksperimennya membuahkan hasil positif.

CUT TO - RONI'S POV
... Zombie terbaring, nafasnya kembali normal, layaknya manusia.

PAN TO

ANNA (O.S)

Obatnya bekerja

CUT TO - ANGLE ON

Neville memutari zombie, merasa tidak yakin apakah hal itu benar terjadi.

ANNA

Neville

.....Obatnya bekerja

CUT TO- RONI'S POV
Sekumpulan zombie berhasil menerobos masuk ke dalam lab tersebut, Robert terkejut, dan segera berlari ke dalam ruang kaca dan mengunci pintunya. Anna berlari mundur. Anna memeluk Ethan, terkejut. Zombie berusaha mendobrak pintu kaca.

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Tidak. Hentikan. Hentikan!

Dengar, dengar. Aku bisa menyelamatkan kalian

Aku bisa menyembuhkan kalian, kalian sakit dan aku bisa menyembuhkan

Aku bisa... Aku bisa memperbaiki ini!

Aku bisa menyelamatkan semuanya!

Zombie terkuat masuk ke dalam ruangan.

CUT TO - XCU

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Aku bisa memperbaiki semuanya!

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE (O.S)

Obatnya bekerja. Obatnya bekerja!

Zombie terkuat berjalan menuju ruang kaca sambil melempar zombie - zombie lain.

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Hentikan! Hentikan!

CUT TO - ANGLE ON
Neville mengacungkan senjata kearah zombie terkuat dan tersentak setelah zombie tersebut berusaha mendobrak pintu kaca. Zombie tersebut berusaha mendobrak lagi.

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Biarkan aku menyembuhkanmu!

ARC / SWING - RONI'S POV
Neville terkejut setelah zombie terkuat berusaha mendobrak masuk lagi, dan tetap mengacungkan senjatanya.

CUT TO - ANGLE ON

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Tidak. Tidak

ANGLE ON
Menyerah karena para zombie tidak mendengarkan Robert, iapun terduduk.

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Tidak. Tidak!

RONI'S POV
Robert menatap pintu kaca yang sudah retak karena didobrak oleh zombie terkuat, lalu menyadari bahwa retakan tersebut membentuk pola kupu - kupu, lalu teringat kata - kata anaknya.

MARLEY NEVILLE (O.S)

Ayah, lihat kupu - kupu!

RONI'S POV
Neville kemudian melihat tato kupu - kupu yang ada di leher Anna. Berpikir sejenak, lalu mengambil sampel darah zombie yang jadi eksperimennya. Anna melihat tindakan Robert.

XCU

ANNA

Robert

Apa yang kau lakukan?

ANGLE ON

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Obatnya ada didalam darahnya

Zombie terus mendobrak.

XCU

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Tempat batu bara. Disini aman. Ethan masuk!

Mengantar masuk Anna dan Ethan ke dalam perapian.

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Cepat

ANNA

Ayo masuk

OVER SHOULDER

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Anna...

Kurasa inilah alasanmu kesini

Robert memberikan sampel darah tersebut kepada Anna dan mereka saling menatap satu sama lain.

ANNA

Apa yang kau lakukan?

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Aku mendengar

ANNA

Neville, masih ada tempat. Masuklah

DR. ROBERT NEVILLE

Tidak

Mereka tidak akan berhenti

Tetap didalam sampai subuh

Robert melihat sekumpulan zombie dibalik kaca lalu mulai berjalan kearah meja tempat ia menyimpan foto istri dan anaknya, tersenyum, lalu mengambil granat yang juga ada didalam laci mejanya. Pintu kaca ruang tersebut mulai pecah. Neville melepaskan gagang granat. Zombie terkuat dan Neville berlari kearah satu sama lain dan ketika badan Neville mulai menyentuh badan zombie tersebut, granat mulai meledak.

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     Saya memilih film ini karena sangat menyedihkan (bagi saya) dan semua film yang diperankan oleh Will Smith selalu menyentuh. Dan film ini juga menjadi awal saya mulai menyukai semua film yg berbau zombie. Walaupun saya nggak paham, kan kalo di logika, kaca kalo retak kan patternya biasanya melingkar, ini malah membentuk kupu-kupu (ya walaupun aku tau sih biar bisa nyambung ceritanya... tapi kan ya gimana gitu...). Terus luka yang ada di bahu si Robert suka pindah - pindah, awalnya dikiri terus dikanan, kayak kutu lompat aja... Sama bajunya suka gonta - ganti... dalam 1 adegan bisa panjang, pendek terus panjang lagi. Lol.

Ps. Sekedar tambahan, kenapa saya tulis namanya Dr. Robert Neville? Karena Anna nggak jelas, kadang manggil si mc Robert, kadang Neville... Daripada bingung kan ya...

[Review] MEMENTO (2000)

         First of all, I'm sorry for my bad english (I just want to learns english little by little) and idc if any of you will judge me by being a grammar nazi, I will just remember the correct grammar you gave it to me and completely ignores you :) Secondly, maybe my review will be a little bit subjective.
At least I've told you, didn't I? :) 

Characters:

1. Leonard Shelby (Lenny)

    A very loving husband. Stubborn (want to) by believing that his wife's killer is still out there and doesn't want to believe that Sammy's story is actually his, determined to get revenge on his wife's killer, clever by organize all of his memories by writing down what he has to do next (not to forget about it), has trust issue (he easily get confused with who to believe, and makes him trust the wrong people), easy to take advantage of.

2. John Edward Gammell (Teddy)

    Like to take advantage of Lenny, remember when he leads Lenny to kill Jimmy (even it's just some kind of accident (?)), he's actually a very kind person (?) by preventing Lenny to kill other innocent people or help him to remember), He's triying to be a loyal friend by always accompany Lenny (maybe it's some kind of his preventing action?)

3. Natalie

    Like to take advantage of Lenny by order him to kill Dodd (using his amnesia), has 2 faces (As I've explained it before, sometimes she help Lenny by giving some information about his wife's killer (which is Teddy)).

4. Samuel R. Jankis (Sammy)
    Loved his wife so much and really caring about her. To me, he looks like an idiot by just sitting on his sofa and watching TV, not doing something about his condition (totally different from Lenny), lol.

    

5. Mrs. Jankis

    Caring for her husband, try her hardest to make her "husband oldself" back, kinda presistent, would like to believing that her husband is still the same as she ever know.

6. Burt

    Curious, testing if Lenny has said the truth about his condition. Pretty nice, by not minding or get angry over Lenny's condition.

7. Catherine Shelby

    Loyal to her husband even wih his condition, even she kind of denial. Pretty much like Mrs. Jankis (because it's her own story).

8. Dodd
    Easily get angry over the thing that he doesn't get.

    

9. James F. Grantz (Jimmy)
    All he cares about is only money. But if it has to be compared with his own life, he would gave the money up.

    

10. Blonde (Escort Girl)
      As we always expecting from an escort girl, she'll doing everything what her buyer's favors. Doing something for money even she doesn't know what the purpose is.

      
PLOT:
 

The act structure: Forward - flashback for 22x ends with forward plot.

     In the begining of story, it shows Lenny took a polaroid of dead Teddy in reverse. Then flashback to the time when Lenny speaks on the phone.

The film starts with the Polaroid photograph of a dead man. As the sequence plays backwards the photo reverts to its undeveloped state, entering the camera before the man is shot in the head. This is followed by interspersed black-and-white and color sequences, with the black-and-white sequences taking place chronologically before the color sequences.

The black-and-white sequences begin with Leonard Shelby in a motel room speaking to an unnamed telephone caller who is not shown on-screen. Leonard has anterograde amnesia and is unable to store recent memories, the result of an attack by two men. Leonard explains that he killed the attacker who raped and strangled his wife, but a second clubbed him and escaped. The police did not accept that there was a second attacker, but Leonard believes the attacker's name is John (or possibly James), with a last name starting with G. Leonard conducts his own investigation using a system of notes, Polaroid photos, and tattoos. As an insurance investigator, Leonard recalls one Sammy Jankis, also diagnosed with the same condition. Sammy's diabetic wife, who was not sure if his condition was genuine, repeatedly requested insulin injections to try to get him to break his act. He did not and as a result she fell into a command died.

The color sequences are shown in reverse chronological order. In the story's chronology, Leonard gets a tattoo, based on instructions to himself, of John G'slicense plate. Finding a note in his clothes, he meets Natalie, a bartender who resents Leonard as he wears the clothes and drives the car of her boyfriend, Jimmy. After understanding his condition, she uses it to get Leonard to drive a man named Dodd out of town and offers to run the license plate to help his investigation. Meanwhile, Leonard meets with a contact, Teddy. Teddy helps with Dodd, but warns him about Natalie; however, Leonard has already written on a photo of Teddy to not trust him. Natalie provides Leonard the driver's license, which shows a John Edward Gammell, Teddy's full name. Confirming Leonard's information on "John G" and his warnings, Leonard meets Teddy and drives him to an abandoned building, killing him as shown in the opening.

In the final black-and-white sequence, prompted by the caller, Leonard meets Teddy in the motel lobby. Teddy is an undercover officer and has found Leonard's "John G", Natalie’s boyfriend Jimmy Grantz, and directs Leonard to the same abandoned building outside of town. When Jimmy arrives, Leonard strangles him and takes a photo of the body. As it develops the black-and-white transitions to color, thus beginning the color sequences. Leonard swaps clothes with Jimmy, hearing Jimmy whisper "Sammy". As Leonard has only told the story of Sammy to those he has met, he doubts Jimmy is the attacker. Teddy arrives and asserts that Jimmy was John G but when Leonard is not convinced, Teddy reveals that Leonard had killed the real attacker over a year ago, having helped Leonard find him. Teddy claims that since "John G" is a common name, he will continually forget, beginning his search again and that even Teddy himself has a "John G" name. Further, Teddy explains to Leonard that it was his own wife that fell into the coma from the insulin overdose as Sammy had been single. After hearing Teddy's exposition, Leonard consciously burns the photograph of Jimmy's body, drives off in Jimmy's car and has Teddy's license plate number tattooed on himself as the one of the second attacker, which will lead to the events of Teddy's death.

Review:

The first 60", I feels like there's too much flashback, it makes me bored. But I think Christopher Nolan purposely makes us feel like we're in Lenny position, trying to remember what we've done before to keep it all together.