In the area of film intertexuality means the taking of parts of a film which is then shown similarly in another film or is used as a whole. One example which is repeatedly used in other thrillers is a extract of a bathroom scene from the film 'Psycho'.
An example of where intertextuality is used in a film called 'Fatal Attraction'. In the scene there are two woman which are fighting each other, on of them stabs the other with a knife. The man comes upstairs and goes grabs the woman and pushes her in to the bath tub where he drowns her. This film copies the film 'Psycho' in many ways, its uses the white background such as the tiles and bathtub. In addition is uses the same knife and also when the woman falls in to the bath tub she pulls the bath curtain down with her.
The thriller 'White Lies' Also uses some parts from Psycho. In the clip the man carries his wife to the bathroom where the bathtub is white and also the surroundings are white colored based. In the film it uses the same sort of shower and it has the shower curtain. This is all copied from the film 'Psycho'. This may be due to the fact that psychologically humans like to see the same sort of films. It may be because humans like seeing the same ideas being used over and over again.
This could be influencing to our opening scene as we could also put intertextuality to action as we could use certain examples from other films in our opening to a thriller.
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