Director : Adrian Lyne
Writers : James Dearden
Stars : Michael Douglas, Glenn close and Anne Archer
Genre : Drama/Thriller
Release : 18th September, 1987 (USA)
date
Running : 119 min
time
Budget : $14 million
Gross : $320,145,693
revenue
PLOT
Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is a successful, happy married New Yor attorney living in Manhatten when he meets Alexandra (Alex) Forrest (Glenn Close), an editor for a publishing company, through business. While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Ellen Hamilton Latzen) are out of town for the weekend, Dan has an affair with Alex. though Dan thought it would be a simple fling, Alex begins clinging to him.
Alex's mental instability surfaces quickly when she attempts suicide after Dan explains that he must go home to his family. Dan thinks that the affair is forgotten, but Alex shows up at various places to see him. She ends up stalking him and his family. Dan tells his wife, Beth, about the affair and she asks him to leave. Alex then kidnaps Ellen from school and Beth gets into a cr crash while searching for Ellen in a panic. Dan gets rather annoyed and wants to kill her. Therefore he barges into Alex's apartment and attacks her, but does not kill her. When Beth is released from the hospital she forgives Dan and he returns home.
Alex then decides to eliminate what she sees as her main obstacle, Beth. while Beth is in the bathroom, Alex attacks her with a chef's knife. Dan hears the screaming and runs in. He wrestles Alex into the bathtub and seemingly drowns her. She suddenly emerges from the water, swinging the knife. Beth, who went searching for Dan's gun, shoots Alex in the chest killing her.
How does this film relate to our film in the making?
The story line is rather similar to our plans for 'Trapped in Love'. This is because it all starts with a beautiful begging, leading into a madness by mental issues and ending by the death of the mental character. However the only difference is that the mental character in 'Fatal Attraction' is inlove with the main character, Dan. And in 'Trapped in Love' the mental character is far away from love.
TITLE SEQUENCE
The title sequence of 'Fatal Attraction' begins with a few black slides which have white and simple writing on them. We are firstly introduced to the distributor of the film which is ' Paramount pictures'. We then get an introduction of the producer which is 'Jaffe/Lansing', following by the introduction of main characters, who are named by their real names. After the introduction to the main people the film name is shown to us. We then get a extreme long shot, which pans right. This shows us silhouettes of buildings and an orange sky. We are also able to see lights in the buildings, which may represent the people living in the town. The black silhouettes hide the towns identity and there for it is hard to tell what town it is. This may be used to make the audience want to find out where the film may be based at. The darkness also represents the fact of the film being filmed at night time. The fact of it being night is also very clear due to the fact of very quiet sounds being heard, such as the wind and dogs barking. We are also able to heard some car noises and this may let the audience know that this film is based in a quite big city/town, as big city members are most likely to own cars. The fact of it being dark is also a very good way for the audience to view the credits on the screen, this is because they are white and quite big, therefore they stand out rather well in the dark background. While the camera keeps panning right we get introduced to the other main pupils which took part in the film/film making. These people would be the casting people, the musicians, costume designers,the editors, production designers, directors of photography, producers and the directors. As all of the main pupils involved have been introduced the camera is still panning to the right but it is panning down at the same down. This is where we get introduced to to the one of the main characters 'Beth' (Anne Archer), this introduction is done by zooming into one of the light windows where she shuts the curtain. This title sequence has been very cleverly made as the audience have no choice but to read the credits, this is because they are the objects that stand out the most during the 2 minute sequence. This is because the town/city cannot be viewed as well as no sound has been added which would distract the audience. However this is also a bad idea as it does not interest the audience as much, this is because the view of the city is rather similar during the whole time while the camera is panning right.
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