'Man on the Run'

For this task we worked in groups to come up with a whole scenario of the genre 'man on the run' spoof. We had to come up with the setting for our movie and the plot. We used two movies for inspiration 'The fugitive' and 'The Bourne Trilogy' we tried to re-create main parts from each of them.

The Plot:
The first scene is a prison bus travelling down a long stretch of road at night, then the bus crashes because of a deer in the road. Our main character is one of the prisoners, he manages to escape from prison and is now on the run. In the next scene we see he man now in normal clothes, he is wearing a disguise, a fake moustache, which is clearly seen as it is hanging of a little. He is walking down a street on the phone to one of his friends, explaining to him how he was wrongly convicted of the crime, this is where the audience find out he is not a real criminal. As he is walking down the street a sniper has targeted him and is aiming to shoot at him, although he does not know. He then realises that his shoe is untied and he bends down to tie it, as he bends down the sniper take a shot and misses. He is still totally oblivious to the fact that someone is trying to kill him. He stands up and continues walking along the street, the sniper then takes multiple shots at him and fails again. Now he is aware that someone is trying to kill him, he begins to run for his life. The sniper then begins to chase him through a crowded place and whilst they are running they mess up the whole place and he trips up a number of times creating humour. Towards the end he stumbles into a circus and finds a clown outfit, he puts it on to blend in with the others, and the sniper then looses him, for the time being.

We tried to incorporate some main parts of 'the fugitive' and 'The Bourne Trilogy' so that it would make it more obvious to the audience that it is a spoof. The beginning with the prison bus and crash was from The Fugitive. The part with the sniper we tried to match with The Bourne Trilogy as in that film there are a lot of snipers and he himself is a trained to use one.