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Action Movie :Jack Reacher

Main Characters:

•Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise):  Involved after the 5 deaths, Barr after recovering from his coma asks for Reacher. At first it seems like a hopeless task however with the help of Helen they both unravel certain situations and come to conclusion that it wasn’t Barr.

•Helen (Rosamund Pike): District attorney’s daughter who is defending Barr who's been saddled with the apparently hopeless task of saving him from the death penalty.

•Rodin (Richard Jenkins): District attorney who is the father of Helen’s, who gets involved in later events of the film.

•Emerson (David Oyelowo): A detective in Pittsburgh who is featured several times with certain attacks throughout the investigation  carried out by Reacher himself. In the end we notice that Emerson is working for the man himself the Zec.

•The Zec (Werner Herzog): Is the mastermind behind the whole attack of the killing of the 5 innocent citizens. However there was a reason for such an attack, to make it look like there were just there to kill how Barr did previously before the film in military. They only wanted one person dead who owned a building site company.

•Charlie (Jai Courtney): He in fact is the killer of all 5 innocent murders, however he frames Barr. Works for the Zec and goes by all of his orders.

•Barr (Joseph Sikora): Gets framed for shooting 5 people. Asks for Jack Reacher, which leads to Reacher investigating the situation and eventually leading to Barr being innocent. 

Plot:

•When a sniper shoots randomly five victims, Detective Emerson finds evidence to incriminate the former paranoid marine James Barr. It is an easy case for the prosecutor Rodin, but Barr refuses to sign the confession and he calls Jack Reacher. When he is transported to prison in a bus, the other prisoners beat him and Barr goes to the hospital in coma.

• The pacifist attorney Helen Rodin, who is the daughter of the prosecutor, decides to defend him but Jack Reacher is a former marine investigator that left the army and has become an unknown drifter. Out of the blue, Jack appears in the city and Helen invites him to work for her investigating the case. Soon he finds that the culprit is innocent and there is a conspiracy behind the murders. 

Mis.en.Scene

•Examples of Mise en Scene

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• An example of when mise en scene is used is in the opening sequence with the props as bullets. The use of these bullets gives us an understanding of how there might be an involvement of these bullets within the film and demonstrates the importance to the storyline.

•Another example of mise en scene used is another prop with the machine gun being attached to the main character. It gives us the feeling that this character is a important but dangerous man. Reacher clothing gives off certain signals such as, his type of clothes being like soldier/assassin type of costume to show us that he is a form of authority and may have a hidden mystery behind it due to the assassin look.

Iconography:

•Iconography is used with the main character Jack Reacher. Reacher is a fictional and protagonist of a series of books from Jim Grant.

•A former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps, Reacher was laid off at age 36, and roams the United States taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations. For example in the film Jack Reacher comes across as this with particular clothing and characteristics.