THRILLER FILMS

We also watched The Godfather, where the opening scene shows dialogue straight away between a desperate man and Don Corleone. You do not see Don Corleone face and it creates a mysterious and powerful figure of the man. It is also in a dark room creating a greater sense of enigma. This scene is an interesting start to the film and sets up what is going to happen throughout and makes you want to watch on which i feel is most important for an opening scene to a film, making it such a good film to watch.

We have been researching other thriller film openings for inspiration for our own opening. One film we have been looking at is 'Clockwork Orange' where it starts with a man looking up with a scary look on his face and eye make up. It then slowly zooms out to see he is in a strange room with others and drinking a glass of milk. This is a very good mysterious opener and we may take ideas of the slow zooming out shot and the eyes. This was particularly unsettling because of the striking eyes making a weird image to scare you.