STUDY: Collateral (2004)

Conflicts

• INTERNAL: Max & Dream Business
• LOVE: Max & Annie
• ANTG: Max vs. Vincent
• WORLD: Max vs. Societal Norms

S01 - Open 6

• Vincent Airport Bump
• Max - Cleans/Couple/Gas
• Max & Annie taxi ride
• Annie Opens Up/ Card

S02 - Catalyst

• Vincent & Max taxi ride
• Vincent makes deal w/Max
• Intercut b/w Max & Vincent
• DB on top of car

S03 - Debate

• Ray checks on Ramone
• Max freaks out (Rwanda)
• Cop pulls over “I hit a deer”

S04 - B World

• Max’s boss calls
• Vincent kills two thugs
• Gas Station “You like jazz?”
• Ray at Scene of Crime

S05 - Games

• Jazz club “Improvisation”
• Owner tells story
• Hospital with Max’s Mom

S06 - PoNR

• Max runs, throws bag
• Ray at Morgue
• Vincent talks about dad
• Vincent assigns Max job

S07 - False Victory

• Max -> club, cops watching
• Felix “Pedro Negro” story
• Max bluffs

S08 - Evil Chokes

• Cops think Max is Vincent
• Montage of car scenes
• “Call her” (Wolves)
• Song over montage

S09 - All Is Lost

• Club Fever Sequence
• Cab “Cosmic Coincidence”
• Max crashes car

S10 - Resort

• Max gets out, cop arrives
• Max runs, calls Annie
• Vincent hunts intercut w/
• Max warns Annie

S11 - Rally

• Max breaks into office
• Vincent Hunts Annie
• Max Shoots Vincent

S12 - Battle

• Run on to Subway
• Fire at each other, Max dies
• Train goes off into night

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