I am looking for movies where an event occurs and the whole arc and goal of a character changes and to get out of that scenario is everything for that character and that becomes ultimate resolution of the movie.
Few examples are:-
13th warrior - antonio banderas is punished by being appointed as an ambassador to the north. But once he meets norsemen the whole movie becomes about their mission and how to complete it. The whole ambassador thing is thrown out of the window.
next three days - we see a normal couple and then the wife is accused of the murder she didn't commit. From then on the main goal of the husband is to escape with his wife and evade police and leave the country untraced. Nothing in their lives will be the same.
Even prison escape movies like escape from pretoria or shawshank redemption or even midnight express where characters are thrown into certain situations and the whole movie becomes about that.
Crawl - its hurricane and girl tries to get her father out of basement and she is stuck in there with crocodiles and whole movie is about how she can get out of that water.
Once they are in a situation in the movie....the entire movie becomes about getting out of that situation. It need not be prison escape movies....but a good thriller with this kind of storyline is what i am looking for.
Few examples are:-
13th warrior - antonio banderas is punished by being appointed as an ambassador to the north. But once he meets norsemen the whole movie becomes about their mission and how to complete it. The whole ambassador thing is thrown out of the window.
next three days - we see a normal couple and then the wife is accused of the murder she didn't commit. From then on the main goal of the husband is to escape with his wife and evade police and leave the country untraced. Nothing in their lives will be the same.
Even prison escape movies like escape from pretoria or shawshank redemption or even midnight express where characters are thrown into certain situations and the whole movie becomes about that.
Crawl - its hurricane and girl tries to get her father out of basement and she is stuck in there with crocodiles and whole movie is about how she can get out of that water.
Once they are in a situation in the movie....the entire movie becomes about getting out of that situation. It need not be prison escape movies....but a good thriller with this kind of storyline is what i am looking for.