Swede Pitch

The film I plan to swede is the film Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008) Gross: $226,830,568 Budget: $25,000,000.


About the film:Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

Cafe Scene

In my swede i would have many different scenes, to start these scenes off i would act out the daughter asking his father to go to Paris. i would do this around a table whilst drinking something making it look just like a cafe, just like in the movie. i would either get a girl to act out the scene with me or get a boy with a wig for a comedy classic swede effect.

Kidnapping Scene

Another scene i will definitely do is when the daughter gets kidnapped. this is an essential part of the film and one i would like to show in my swede. The acting would be very dramatic with a hint of comedy, filming under a bed like in the film.

Phone call scene

The essential and most memorable part of the film is the phone call between The dad (Liam Nelson) and his daughters kidnapper. This will be the focal point of my swede it's one of the most famous scenes of any film and influenced me in choosing this film to swede.

Torture scene

The punishment scene will be comedy inspired. Instead of using serious torture, like electrocuting  i will do something like tickling someones feet or making them eat chilies, to make it a funny swede that will hopefully make people laugh. I will have many little fighting scenes inbetween that will be so unrealistic it will hopefully be very funny.

I will end obviously with the scene where he finds his daughter! doing things like making the camera to emphasise its on a boat! i hope you like my swede idea, thankyou for viewing.