Intertextual References

Although I already have included intertextual references throughout my Thriller opening already; I have decided to relate this to the current news story of the Joanna Yeates murder, this is called a Zeitgeist.

"The 25-year-old’s body was found on Longwood Lane, Failand, North Somerset, on Christmas Day morning, sparking a huge police operation.

A police investigation was launched when Miss Yeates

' boyfriend Greg Reardon, 27, reported her missing after he returned to Bristol on December 19 following a weekend away visiting family in Sheffield.

Miss Yeates was not seen again until her body was found on December 25.
Today’s news came a day after police revealed that more than 300 people had contacted detectives investigating the murder in the 24 hours after a reconstruction of Miss Yeates’s final movements was filmed."
Developments have now been made in the case, and it is now believed she was murdered in her own apartment following the discovery of new evidence. There was also no sign of a forced entrance which suggests she knew the person who murdered her. 


Ironically, I had already related my Thriller to this news story but the way in which this story of Joanna Yates will be on the audience's minds, gives my Thriller authenticity. She was murdered in her own home; where she is meant to be at her safest gives it a cruel, ironic twist. The way that the public who have heard about the story have sympathised with Joanna's family and the great sense of shock replicates the way my audience of my thriller will respond to seeing the final scene of 'The Intruder'. The fact that this is a real life situation gives a frightening reality to the thriller.

 

This final scene in the apartment also relates to The Sixth Sense with the way in which an ex patient breaks into Anna and Malcom Crowe's home. This fear of your house/apartment being broken into will play on the audience's fear, making themselves almost feel a part of the story.


The corridor scenes......
The use of the lift.....
the effect of using the shower .....