Headhunters and Welcome to the Punch.

Headhunters and Welcome to the Punch.

Headhunters is based around a business man/ art thief who goes on the run from the law and a man who is trying to kill him.

Director: Morten Tyldum
Writer: Ulf Ryberg
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
The genre of this film is a Crime Thriller with main themes of romance and betrayal. In Headhunters you could argue that it has themes of comedy as the film at some points does not take it self seriously. For example when the police car s run off the road, down a cliff, the main protagonist survives as he is seated next to two large police officers who take the impact. Although the film follows a serious event, there is still evidence of comedy.
A micro-feature that is important in this film is performance. At the beginning of the film, the main protagonist (Roger) is shown to be a successful business man who has the big house and the dream girl friend. As the film goes on, he starts to lose everything he has. For example at one part of the film he has to shave all his hair off. In the film this symbolises that he has gotten to the point where he has to give up everything in order to survive. Performance is important as the audience sees the down fall of Roger which makes them feel sympathetic towards him. If we didn't see the downfall (performance) then the audience wouldn't feel sympathetic towards him meaning that the audience won't care if Roger succeeds or not.

The film Welcome to the Punch is about a police officer who is hunting down a deadly criminal in order to get revenge.
Director: Eran Creevy.
Writer: Eran Creevy.
Cast: James McAvoy and Mark Strong
The genre of this film is also a crime thriller with themes of revenge, betrayal and determination. This film has similar themes to Headhunters except this film takes it self very seriously. This film is full of suspense which means it has to take itself seriously in order to make the audience feel on edge.
An important micro-feature in this film is cinematography. Through out the film there are a variety of different camera shots and angles in order to show the different events within the film. For example, in the opening scene it shows a sequence of different shot of the group of people committing a robbery. Cinematography is important because it is the aesthetics of the film. It is what grabs the audience attention. Welcome to the pPunch does an amazing job of making the film look really good. This is what makes the film more exciting for the audience as everything is planned to please the audience.

In both these films they have the same theme of betrayal. In Headhunters, the main character, Roger doesn't feel as if he can trust any one. He feels as if his girlfriend is apart of the whole plan and also that his friend wanted to kill him to. In Welcome to the Punch, the main character, Max is betrayed by the police force he works for as he is blamed for murder and some of the police officers go rogue. In this film they both use the the theme betrayal to create suspense as it also makes it hard for the audience to trust anyone in the film so they too are uncertain about what could happen.
The differences in the two films is that the film follows the story from a different point of view. In Headhunters, the story follows the victim and how they ended up in the situation whereas in Welcome to the punch they follow the story of a police officer trying to solve the situation. This difference has a different affect on the audience as following the victim makes it more worrying for the audience as they are also unaware of what is going to happen and why its happening. Whereas following the police officers perspective means that the audience also find out more as the film goes on because they are apart of the investigation.