Composition 1 | Week 4 Assignment 2 | Redo of Hollywood Ending |

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For this assignment I chose the movie “The call.” This movie is recently published in March of 2013. It features Halle Berry who plays as a 911 dispatch operator. Halle Berry’s character’s name is Jordan. Jordan is a veterinarian dispatcher who has become emotionally attached to her job. On an average day she receives a phone call from a distraught teenager. Her name was Leah, she was home alone and a man broke into her house. Frantically on the phone with Jordan she tries to hide from the intruder. When the girl thinks the guy is gone the phone got disconnected. Jordan called the traced line back and gave up the location of the little girl. While the girl is being kidnapped and screaming Jordan is left on the phone to hear the agony. The intruder picked up the phone to see who was on the line, and Jordan announced herself and that she was with 911. She attempted to talk the man out of hurting Leah and letting him know that cops were on the way. Instead of panicking the man replied “it’s already been done!” and terminated the call. Six months later they found Leah’s body buried in the dessert, with no trace of her murderer. Halle Berry (Jordan) was disturbed by this and was unsure if she could go on, so she was placed in training new dispatchers. As she’s walking around allowing the trainees to see the work in progress, they receive a similar call. This time it was a new victim by the name of Casey. She had been abducted from the mall and thrown into the trunk of the car. Casey called 911 from the trunk and was on a tracphone. A newer dispatch officer handled the call and immediately got two overwhelmed to keep calm. Jordan noticed and immediately took over the call. This time she took more heat to the situation. She was able to walk the girl through kicking out the tail light and pouring paint out of the whole, so the helicopter can see the trail. Unfortunately because of the tracphoen they were unable to pull a GPS location on the girl making it hard to locate her. Jordan stayed on the phone with the girl while the Guy, (Michael) murdered two more people, and took her to the location that he would kill her in. Once he got to his location of “kill” the girl kicked and screamed out of the car. As he threw her over his shoulders he noticed a cell phone in her back pocket. And again, he reached for the phone to see who was on the other line, and again it was Jordan. She attempted to talk him out of it, only this time he had messed up. In the time he was traveling to this location he had killed two people carelessly leaving hand prints behind a car to trace. Jordan called him by name, “Michael, you don’t have to do this, you don’t have to hurt the little girl. We know who you are and are on the way to find you.” Again, Michael replied “it’s already been done.” This made Jordan take a personal interest in the case because she recognized the voice and the saying. While cops were searching for him, she located the sounds she heard in the background of the call. It turned out to be an underground “fortress” on the property of his deceased grandfather. Jordan was able to get in, where she discovered Michael scalping Casey alive. They both put up a fight and eventually knocked him out. Once he was unconscious they tied him up in the chair he had Casey in. He awoke screaming. Figuring out that Jordan was the girl on the phone, both murders he had committed. Telling Jordan she couldn’t do this, and that they couldn’t just leave him there, she replied “It’s already been done!” and the movie ends.
I would have changed this ending. Rather than them closing the door and leaving him locked up in the location he killed, I would have had them undo to him as he did to his victims. Or, they could have at least got justice and allowed the police to find him and place him on the death penalty, with her last words to him, “it’s done!”