Movie convention blog: Murder Mystery
To investigate the genre of mystery even further, we watched a couple of mystery films. We specifically looked into the film, "Murder Mystery." The movies follows a New York police officer and his wife as they travel together to Europe to rekindle their romance. However, on what was supposed to be a relaxing getaway, they are accused of killing a billionaire after a casual encounter. It is up to them to figure out who actually killed the billionaire in order to save themselves. This movie displayed many of the general conventions of a typical mystery film. For example, in the scene of the murder, there is a total of ten people in the room as the billionaire signs his will, disinheriting his family. There is tense music as the family hears this betrayal, which makes the environment uneasy. Then all of a sudden, the lights abruptly go off and the screen turns black. The music completely stops, catching the audience's attention and giving them thoughts like, "what jus...
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