Three Film Openings

  Hello everyone and welcome back! In reference to my previous blog about the 2 genres, I had in mind to film, Today I will be going into about my chosen genre that I analyzed and a few examples of the genre along the way. As a reminder, the two film genres I suggested was drama and action.

My chosen genre for my film opening is drama. In the film industry, Drama has been known to be a genre that evokes a lot of human emotion and emotionally impact a person. It delves into the lives of characters and its conflicts. The background of the word "Drama" is derived from the Greek word 'dran', meaning 'to do' and 'act'. Drama is one of the biggest and most watched genres in the film industry.

Three examples of some major film openings from the genre "Drama" are...

 Inglorious Basters- 

Saving Private Ryan-  

The Dark Knight- 

The film opening from the movie Inglorious Basterds is known to be one of the best film openings in the film industry. The film opening begins with a man chopping wood on his property while his wife is washing clothes. Meanwhile they are working on the hard labor, they see a car driving towards them and realizes it is someone who is not an ally to them. This film opening helps introduce what will soon happen throughout the movie and why military man went to the worker’s home.

The next film opening is from the movie Saving Private Ryan. The film opening begins with a short clip of a blockade at a beach and a group of men on a small boat heading towards the shore. However, the next clip shows them embarking the boat and they are caught in an ambush and getting killed one by one by gunshots. This opening really helps explain the setting and soon the plot of the movie.

The last film opening is from the movie The Dark Knight. It starts off with a man walking down the street, walking towards a building with a clown mask in his hand. Later in the film, it shows a group of men with masks also going towards the building but towards the roof. The next clip shows the men raiding the facility, which is now introduced as a bank, and taking people hostage while robbing the money. Towards the end of the film, they show who the leader of the group is, introducing the main character to the audience before the climax of the film.