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‘Play misty for me’ is another psychological thriller which stars a character whose personality clearly relates to Shanice’s. Evelyn is a lady who is a daily caller and listener to a radio station. Evelyn starts turning crazy and she eventually begins to stalk the radio presenter. Again, this is another split personality character.

Jack Torrance who is played by Jack Nicholson, shares a very similar personality to that of Shanice (Neicy). Both characters at first, appear to be very ‘ordinary like’ individuals. Jack Torrance and Shanice both adopt a two sided personality (one which complies with everyday living and the other which is completely psychotic). In the Shining, the general storyline consists of a family (Jack Torrance being the dad) moving into a suburban area due to a work placement. As time goes on, Jack becomes both physically and mentally exhausted, eventually turning him insane. The storyline of my groups opening sequence (The Paranoia), is similar to that of the Shining as Shanice who is portrayed as an eager student, working hard with her studies, suddenly takes an attitude change after she receives a text.

All of the characters above share characteristics of having 2 sides to their personality. The two sides consist of some who conforms to the consensus of every day society and the other is one that is ‘crazy’ and who is willing to do what they want without thinking of their actions. These characters do not apply to one specific group. This is evident of the characters which I have analysed, as they all differ in class, gender, ethnicity and age.

This is a link to all four character profiles of my opening sequence: http://openingsequenceforthriller.blogspot.com/2010/03/character-profiles.html

This is a link to just Shanice’s character profile (The character used to contrast with the other characters above): https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYcYDaEJ9boK0Gxd7KZTX0F4Ir9gUkja-3Yp_qkjqIGnBvtbBQ6jrYAtIcGyFTQGqdQtgpH0StUsalEd6VPhCr_ufG3jK12tY2r2KStsvjvATXwUTIx_LS7Yq30efourS7P_JhoPT3On6X/s1600-h/DSC_030.JPG