Film Referencing.

1. Film Referencing

2. Boyhood
• Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard
Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of
growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named
Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane),
who literally grows up on screen before our eyes.
Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's
parents and his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the
rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before.
Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family
dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the
moments in between become transcendent, set to a
soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to
Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic
time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing
up and parenting. My film with a similar plot will revolve
around the life of my character and her Family.

3. Secret Window
• Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly
divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his
cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named
John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his
story. Mort says he can prove the story belongs to him and not
Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which
published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen
around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his
divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that
Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas
on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately. My story
would draw a similar pattern connecting social problems we face in
society. The problems may be poles apart, but the emotional
experience of an individual may influence someone
elses.

4. Side Effects
• Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison,
becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide
attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with
her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new
medication called Ablixa. The plot thickens when the side effects of
the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a "sleepwalking" state.
With Emily plea-bargained into mental hospital confinement and Dr.
Banks' practice crumbling around him, the case seems closed.
However, Dr. Banks cannot accept full responsibility and investigates
to clear his name. What follows is a dark quest that threatens to
tear what's left of his life apart even as he discovers the diabolical
truth of this tragedy.
My character is an adaptation of Emily Taylors role. Her behavior
throughout the movie has been clearly observed to consider a
character like hers.

5. American Beauty
• Lester and Carolyn Burnham are, on the outside, a perfect
husband and wife in a perfect house in a perfect
neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and
deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when
he becomes infatuated with one of his daughter's friends.
Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy
friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky, who lives
with an abusive father. This story plot revolves around the
family moving apart and destructing the bond.
• this movie is essential to my genre as it not only shows the
day to day sufferings of a complex individual, but also how
it impacts his family. My story is also family oriented
highlighting my characters relationship with the family.

6. Taxi driver
• Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New
York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working
as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas
during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in
particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has
strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For
him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on
the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine.
He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he
believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a
better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior
for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes
wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and
lover Matthew.

7. As Good as It Gets
• New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted,
obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life
turned upside down when neighboring gay
artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is
entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the
only waitress who will tolerate him, must
leave work to care for her sick son, making it
impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast. The
character in my movie is quiet similar to
Melvin.

8. The Aviator
• Biopic of billionaire Howard Hughes, starting with his early
filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly
focusing on his role in designing and promoting new
aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes
on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding
TWA as a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival
Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph Owen
Brewster accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's
Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many
women in his life including a long relationship with
actress Katharine Hepburn. From an early age however,
Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe
bouts of mental illness.