Thursday, 8 October 2009

Cronos

After talking to Barney about my film opening idea, he suggested that I watched Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)

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Film plot:
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the "Chronos Invention".

He thought it may help me with my idea as the opening is set in a antiques shop where the owner finds a significant object which is important to the rest of the film (a small golden device that gives its owner eternal life)

Which is roughly what I want to try and acheive in my opening.

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