Suspenseful Plot | - They left to go to Paris, met a boy, he invites them to a party and they agree... he is sketchy... (makes a call and tells them that they are both 18).
- The guys breaks into the apartment and take Kimi and her friend.
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Special Effects | - The glass breaking in the mirror at the hotel room
- The glass shattering when it gets shot by the car
- During highspeed car chase, one car hits a lamp post and gets turned over
- Another car runs straight into a fork lift
- Girl that father is helping looks miserable, her makeup is all messed up and her hair is dirty… her lips are very chapped and dried up.
- Father keeps his promises of killing the man that said “good luck” when he meets him, he says “you don’t remember me? We spoke on the phone two days agao!”
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Character Development | - Father buys gift and goes to a birthday party (karaoke machine and wraps it in clown wrapper).
- Daughter has a very rich Step-father (buys her a horse, has a huge house, maids, professional photographer).
- Daughter is very excited to see her dad, but mother is not too thrilled.
- Father and daughter driving in the car talking about father’s life. Shows that daughter missed him and wanted to know more about him. They have a sweet relationship. She is very vulnerable.
- She cannot be honest with her father because he is cautious about everything because of his previous job.
- Kimi’s friend is wild and got Kimi to lie to her dad. They told him the family would be there, but they are not. And they are not going to museums either.
- Dad is very aggressive when finding his daughter, but he is very sweet and thoughtful to his daughter.
- The father is caring for one of the girls that was at the construction site… he holds Kimi’s jacket and starts to cry – show his soft side.
- Father keeps his promises of killing the man that said “good luck” when he meets him, he says “you don’t remember me? We spoke on the phone two days agao!”
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Unpredictability | - Girl almost gets attacked by mob of fans and almost gets attacked with a guy with a knife while leaving her concert, then the dad beats him up and saves her.
- The girl is just on the phone with her dad, and then she looks into the window and sees the guys taking her friend, she goes and hides under the bed. The guys walk in and she is still on the phone with her dad. They walk really close to the bed and then walk away, so you think that they are gone, and then someone grabs her legs and drags her out of the bed and it is very scary… see tears rolling down her eyes and can hear the terror in her voice when she screams.
- Bad guy got hit by a car out of nowhere.
- His daughter is being bid on last at the auction and she is being sold for a beginning price of $100,000, the father points a gun at one of the bidders and gets him to buy her for $500,000… the father and the bidder walk outside and the father gets hit in the head and is knocked out. When he wakes up he is tied up and people are being questioned.
- Father is tied up and in the process of being killed and he ends up getting out of it.
- The Father jumps off the bridge and onto the boat and beats up the guys on it to try and find his daughter
- The bad guy has his daughter and he has a knife to the throat when the father walks in and then the father shoots him… then the daughter starts crying “Daddy, you come for me…. I told you I would!’
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Film Score (Music, sound effects, etc.) | - Plays sad, soothing music when he (dad) leaves the party and is home looking at a photo booth of his daughter
- Plays upbeat music while they are taking the diva to her party (can hear flashing of cameras and people cheering for her).
- Sad music when he is in the diner all alone and has to think about letting her go.
- Very suspenseful music when Kimi is on the phone with her dad... who can hear her breathing hard and hear the footsteps of the guys walking into the room.
- Can hear sounds of cars driving by
- Upbeat music at the construction site
- Very intense during the fighting scenes
- Very suspenseful music when father is driving through the city trying to catch up with the boat.
- Suspenseful music when they are looking on the boat for the father.
- The music changes to very up beat when the father is getting shot at and jumping through the class… You can hear the bones crack when he breaks the arms and then grunting when he hits in the stomach
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Psychological elements |
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Quality of script | - “I don’t know who you are, I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for a ransom I can tell you that I do not have money, but what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills that I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” – Father “Good luck.” – person who took Katie
Very realistic and threatening in majority of the movie |
Setting | - Starts out in the home of the father
- Goes to home of the daughter
- Then they meet in a diner for lunch
- They go to the airport
- Then the daughter goes to France and is staying in a very nice apartment with her friend.
- Father goes the house of wife and looks through Katie’s stuff
- Then he goes to Paris and is looking through the building that Katie was kidnapped in. (he is inspecting every aspect of the room).
- In the city of France trying to find his daughter
- Goes to construction site and is trying to find Kimi. He looks through all the rooms and ends up finding Kimi’s jacket in the room with a girl that is not her
- Goes to house of guy with family and wife.
- Goes to the building of Saint Claire to try and find Kimi to see if she is there because she was sold to them.
- Father gets on the boat that his daughter is on.
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Gore | - When he is killing everyone, it is not really bloody
- He electrocutes one of the bad guys.
- Guy gets shot in the elevator and it opens up and someone sees him all bloody and dead in the elevator
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Explosives | - Father is driving around crazy and takes car and hits gas tanks and lights some stuff on fire.
- When father escapes from being tied up, he breaks a pipe and it sprays in someones face
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Weaponry | - They guy at the concert who had a knife
- The guys and the father at the construction site shooting guns at each other
- Guys at the hideout have guns and weapons
- Has gun at families house
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Bad Guys | - The guys in France that take Kimi
- He finds the bad guy that took a cab with Kimi and sees that he is trying to take a cab with another girl, so the father intervenes and beats him up and then another bad guy pulls the father out of the car and so the father beats him up… but the first bad guy got away, so he gets in the taxi and starts driving it towards the bad guy who is running away.
- The bad guy got hit by a car, so now he has to find out who else was involved.
- Whole bunch of bad guys at the construction site. Trying to take advantage of the girls and then try and kill the father because he drives off wth one of the girls.
- Father goes to the bad guy’s hideout spot and is talking with them and then beats them up
- Father kidnaps one of the bad guys and is trying to torture him so that he will tell him where his daughter is… he is electrocuting him until he talks… he tells him that he sold her to someone.
- The guy whose wife and family are at the house (he is somewhat involved, but not fully).
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Damsel in distress | - Kimi and her friend are in their hotel room and they get taken by guys who broke into the house. They guy the rode with in the taxi led the other guys there.
- All the girls that are being abused and used for sex trafficking
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Realistic | - Starts out with a home video of the girl and sad music (on her fifth birthday) – flashback
- Guy friends come over to have a hangout night.
- The music diva is a brat
- It’s loud when dad is on the phone with his daughter and is at the concert.
- Dad lives in a rundown house.
- Daughter wants father to sign paper to let her go to France, but he doesn’t want her to go because of safety reasons, so she gets upset.
- He has a hard time letting her leave the hotel.
- Girls being taken
- Guys trying to flirt with girls, but ends up just taking a taxi with them to see where they live.
- Having dinner with family, and then is talking about the bad guys… then he shoots his wife in the arm so that he will tell him if he knows the bad guy… (the one in charge of all the bad stuff happening to the girls).
- Daughter is crying when her dad finds her and when she gets back and sees her mom.
- The father was beat up and then has his arm wrapped up.
- The daughter goes back to the dad and gives him a hug and tells him he loves her.
- The daughter gets really nervous when she meets the famous diva… just like any normal fan would. That’s how the movie ends.
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Flashbacks | - Flashback to when Katie was young (home video)
- Flashback to what was happening when he was on the phone with Kimi
- Flashback to Kimi wearing the jacket in the airport when he sees it in the tent.
- Girl that had Kimi’s jacket flashbacks to when she was riding in the car with the guy and then got taken
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