Tuesday, 23 September 2014

textual analysis of film openings 2

the dark knight rises opening scene

genre:
 The way this movie starts is different to other action movies because in the start of this film the bad guy starts off captured. This is unusual because they are normally caught in the end, making this a rare opening action scene.

location: This movie starts off in a nice calm place which is unusual in action movies because action movies are normally filmed in intense war zones whereas this is set in mountains a remote place.

characters: In this scene the CIA agent doesn't really play the role of a CIA agent because he is the one doing the threatening which is uncommon from somebody working for the law. Then later on in the scene we see the plane hijacked, when watching it you can see that bane is calling the shots clearly marking him as the leader of the villains.

pacing: The pace of the movie starts out a bit slow but as soon as the agents discover they have caught bane the pace increases rapidly with another plane hijacking their plane increasing the intensity and in some ways catching out the audience because they are not expecting them to have caught the main villain.

editing and post production: They use a lot of cut scenes in this opening to give a good idea of whats going on and creates a fast tempo to build up the intensity. The use of the soundtrack only kicks in when the action starts this is used like this to capture the audiences attention.


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