This is the famous shower scene from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. Psycho was famous for many things. One of those things was their use of the false protagonist method.
This method involves creating a character and making the audience believe that this character is the main protagonist and then this character is removed from story (killed or simply left) revealing to the audience that this person isn't the protagonist.
In this scene, the woman who is believed by the audience to be the protagonist is suddenly murdered by the antagonist. This means that this woman isn't the protagonist.
This scene inspired me to use the same method for our two minute opening.
For our two minute opening, we have a character who the audience believes is the protagonist. At the end of the two minute opening, this character is suddenly murdered, which means that he is not the protagonist.
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