This document discusses how the film Requiem for a Dream inspired revisions to the filmmaker's remake of Ecstasy. It notes that both films deal with the negative effects of drug use. Requiem for a Dream showed drug use and addiction in a way that was not cheap, unlike the first version of Ecstasy. Taking cues from Requiem for a Dream's style of depicting drug use through lighting, sound, and snapshot filming helped the filmmakers achieve their goal of separating drug scenes from everyday life in a more suspenseful way. The relevance of Requiem for a Dream's theme of negatively portraying the effects of drug addiction aligned with the theme the filmmakers wanted for their remake of Ecst

1. Requiem For A Dream Our Inspiration

3. We have chosen Requiem For A Dream as our inspiration towards out remake of Ecstasy due to this film having the same theme as our own. This
film successfully shows drug taking and the side effects of using drugs in a
way which we do not class as cheap, which is how I would describe our way
of showing drug use in our first version of Ecstasy. Successfully trying to
show drug use without making it really cheap and obvious to create
more suspense was hard, however remembering the film Requiem For A
Dream and the way the director shows drug use, in such a snapshot, way
with different sound effects and lighting than the original film, makes the
drug use seem completely different to usual day life, which is what we
wanted to achieve as a group. Being inspired by Requiem For A Dream really
gave us a chance to work in styles of different directors and widened our
shots we made and how they were completed.
This film had relevance to what we wanted to display in our film as we
needed to show the negative effect of drugs, however in a more Horror like
way, which is like the theme of Requiem For A Dream as the reason behind
the film is the negative effects of drug addiction, like our own theme.