Escape Plan Opening

     The film opens with a long shot of a plain brick red building that has a substantial chain link fence and barbed wire top running around the perimeter. Text appears at the bottom of the screen letting us know that we are starting the film at a prison; Bendwater federal penitentiary, Colorado. As far as I can tell this place is fictional but it is based on a similar place in Colorado Bentwater federal penitentiary.

     The camera jumps to inside the prison and we see five layers of cells each with metal bars across the back of the walkways the silver of the metal is only broken up by the orange jumpsuits that the convicts are forced to wear.

     The camera jumps between close up shots of our protagonist between his eyes and hands. We can see that he is weary of his surroundings. We see a bible in his hands, any thought that he might want the bible for religious reasons are shattered when he rips out and burs the page. This is a slight hint that he will escape as the verse that he burns is Jeremiah 15:6 witch talks about how the bad people will be destroyed, so by Stallone destroying this we see that he will try to defy what has been written, a type of reference that is insignificance but has thought behind it.

     There is no music over the film giving a feeling of solitary when we are made to feel on edge. There are low voices as Sylvester Stallone draws on the wall using the ash as paint and his thumb as a brush.  At this point we don’t know what he is drawing but later we find that it is a copy of a picture that his child drew him.

     This give a good impression on the audience with slight clever spins on simple detail, I would love to be able to put something like this in my film but it requires a lot of deep thinking and I won’t have a chance to finish the punch line as I’m only doing the opening.