(Excerpt from "Giallo Standard Grade Examination 1990: Question Three")
3) In your own words, please take the following scenario and create your own Giallo plot from it:
John and Peter are identical twins who work in a pharmacy. John is married to Denise, who hates John and loves Peter. Gert is an ex-lover of Denise who is trying to blackmail Peter. John has recently been diagnosed with epilepsy that is causing John to have blackouts. Annie is a sometime lover of Peter.
Answer by Baz Enby, Colomba High School:
"Annie dresses up as Denise to get rid of Annie but then John has an eppy that knocks over a knife collection onto Denise dressed as Annie then he wakes up and thinks he's killed Annie then buries Denise but also accidentally buries his own brother too right before both of them are to go up in front of a Pharmacy Regulation panel so John gets a full length mirror and pretends to be both of them then Gert shows up but he's really John wearing a mask with another full length mirror then the panel is Annie and her three twins then the cops show up and kill everyone."
Examiner's remarks: "I think this pupil is brain damaged! What kind of spaz wouldn't figure out that John's epilepsy was actually caused by Peter injecting him with drugs and depriving him of sleep? They work in a pharmacy for God's sake! Baz also clearly has no understanding of the Giallo genre. It's obvious that Peter would impersonate John, go into town, bed Annie (as John though, not Peter), then meet Gert as Peter, but then reveal himself as John (impersonated by Peter), then kill Gert but not really kill him, then return home John and inject him with drugs and then act out the entire night's goings on in front of John so that when John wakes up he thinks he bedded Annie and killed Gert! It's COMMON SENSE AND PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD!
Fail. Will probably end up being a civil servant or something.
3) In your own words, please take the following scenario and create your own Giallo plot from it:
John and Peter are identical twins who work in a pharmacy. John is married to Denise, who hates John and loves Peter. Gert is an ex-lover of Denise who is trying to blackmail Peter. John has recently been diagnosed with epilepsy that is causing John to have blackouts. Annie is a sometime lover of Peter.
Answer by Baz Enby, Colomba High School:
"Annie dresses up as Denise to get rid of Annie but then John has an eppy that knocks over a knife collection onto Denise dressed as Annie then he wakes up and thinks he's killed Annie then buries Denise but also accidentally buries his own brother too right before both of them are to go up in front of a Pharmacy Regulation panel so John gets a full length mirror and pretends to be both of them then Gert shows up but he's really John wearing a mask with another full length mirror then the panel is Annie and her three twins then the cops show up and kill everyone."
Examiner's remarks: "I think this pupil is brain damaged! What kind of spaz wouldn't figure out that John's epilepsy was actually caused by Peter injecting him with drugs and depriving him of sleep? They work in a pharmacy for God's sake! Baz also clearly has no understanding of the Giallo genre. It's obvious that Peter would impersonate John, go into town, bed Annie (as John though, not Peter), then meet Gert as Peter, but then reveal himself as John (impersonated by Peter), then kill Gert but not really kill him, then return home John and inject him with drugs and then act out the entire night's goings on in front of John so that when John wakes up he thinks he bedded Annie and killed Gert! It's COMMON SENSE AND PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD!
Fail. Will probably end up being a civil servant or something.