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Actors: Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bone Collector |
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The main character is paralyzed and gets to work on a couple of murder investigation cases while being confined to a bed. There is a new investigator working to help him on this case and she works through him to try and solve it. The paralyzed is an ex detective and has to solve the clues to try and save people.
--Deanna , Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bone Collector |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- doctors
Special suspect?
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- wealthy
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 6 (an above average amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mental battles
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- fright
- boiling
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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