'Source Code' Analysis

This starts with a helicopter shot to give the audience an idea of the setting of the film. There is faced paced music which gives a tense feel to the opening of the film. Then the music stops to a close-up of the main character who is very tense and is very confused. This makes the audience think what is going on and why he is confused. There is then a massive explosion and ends the opening scene on a massive cliff hanger wondering what is going to happen.

'Inception' opening scene analysis

In the opening scene of 'Inception' it starts off by making the audience immediately ask questions to why the character is lying on a beach passed out and why there is a guard there looking at him. This also carries on further into the opening scene when the character is eating and it makes the audience question further, why he is there and what he has to do with, what looks like, the villain of the film. Also at the start of the scene there is very dark and deep music which makes the audience realise that they are seeing a thriller genre of film.

Zodiac Analysis

The opening sequence to Zodiac is once again just a normal scene showing people celebrating 4th of July. The girl in this scene looks anxious as she is driving through the diner. This builds suspense as the audience ask why she is like that. It then moves to the scene on the hill and the fire crackers being thrown at the car makes the audience on the edge of their seats. Then the car pulls up to them which builds suspense as we wonder why that person has pulled up next them and what they are going to do. But the suspense ends as the car goes away but then we hear an off-screen sound of tire screeches and another car come towards them. This time a man gets out of the car but we can only see an outline of the character as he has a flash light and car lights on. The characters in the car think that it is a police officer but as the man comes towards them he pulls out a gun and shoots both if them. This leaves the audience questioning why the man done that and they end up watching the rest of the film.

No Country For Old Men Analysis

In the opening sequence if No Country For Old Men there is a narrator speaking while there is shots of just scenery to show the audience that it is a vast setting in the middle of no where. Then it shows the sheriff arresting a man but it does not show the mans face, this creates suspense as the audience wonders why we cannot see his face. it then shows the scene of the sheriff on the phone and we can see in the background the man walking towards the sheriff getting ready to kill him. this will make the audience anxious as the sheriff has no idea of what is going on. As the man is strangling the sheriff he starts smiling as if he is enjoying killing him. This tells us that the man is a maniac. After there is another scene were the man has taken the police car and has pulled over a civilian. This builds up tension as we already know what the man is capable of. Once again the man calmly kills the civilian as he did the sheriff. This opening sequence makes the audience ask why the man is killing all of these people and makes them want to watch the rest of the film.

A History Of Violence analysis

The opening 5 minutes of A History Of Violence starts of as a slow boring scene, which looks like a normal film with no suspense at all. There is no sounds which create any suspense or tension within the film. Although towards the end of the opening scene, tensions start to build and as one of the characters walks into the reception there is two people dead, at this point tension and suspense start to build as we wonder why they have killed them. When the little girl comes out the room we think that he help but he tells her to be quiet then shoots her. This shows that the characters have no mercy and did not show any emotion. Ending the opening scene there leaves the audience on a cliff hanger to see why they did it.