Not just a rant

Now the previous post was just some stuff I needed to get off my chest about our meeting with Mike and Dave. It's not an attack or a petulant outburst it's my feelings and concerns on the matter.

So moving on, where can we go from here, as if I didn't give any suggestions then it really would just be a rant. As I said before, I think Mike and Dave where right about trying to flip the ending of the piece. We discussed some stuff briefly earlier but the best idea I think was that it's revealed at the end that the "Hitman" has actually been protecting the target throughout the whole film. I think Shuffly came up with it. He also expressed concerns that maybe this is too obvious a reveal. However if handled right I think it could be pretty good.

I think the reveal can come in the last scene when it looks like the hitman is going to shoot the target point blank. The target closes his eyes and the gun goes off however he isn't dead, the dude opens his eyes and we can maybe see a figure over the targets shoulder, the foreground blurs revealing a third person behind the target who the Hitman has just shot. (This is where it's maybe too cliché the whole over shoulder thingy)

After this event the film can rewind and we can see sped up versions of all the previous attempted assasinations and they are revealed to actually be succesful attempts to stop the target being harmed. For example when he tried to shoot the guy and missed, from another angle we see that he was actually aiming at an assasin trying to get to the target.

It would be kind of like the first time you see Terminator 2 when we all know Arnie as being the killer from the first film the opening is set up to make him look like he's after John Conners blood and the T1000 comes back but we think he is the Kyle reese type character. Then in the corridoor scene comes the reveal we think that Arnie is going to shoot John but instead rattles off the words "get down" and protects him. It was a great flip or at least I thought so.

Anyway I think we could work with something like that but mebbe someone else will come up with something stronger.