Genre opening scenes: Conclusion

In conclusion, all the opening scenes did a good job establishing characters and their role in the movie and set an acute and accurate tone for the rest of the film they were introducing. The war film, however, Saving private Ryan was much longer than the others, which ran for an estimated 4-6 minutes, while this one was much longer, reaching past 20 minutes in the original film. I think this was necessary to shock and mesmerize its audience and speaks to how well the director told the narrative, and personally, I believe it was necessary for the people in the audience to grasp the horrific idea that was presented to them, and perfectly suited the genre. Therefore I think that scene was the most successful. however, the introductory scene to Ready Player one achieved something similar, introducing an entirely new plane of reality clearly and concisely in much less time while still establishing characters and motive. The least successful in my opinion was the western, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, which I think was done well, and the mystery of the "cowboy" character deserves recognition, however, to create more tone and depth, during the intense shootout scene, in the beginning, I feel the tone could have been set more accurately with a soundtrack playing over the scene, while still including the classic musical motif of the characters. I think it would have also been beneficial to perhaps even exaggerate the angles of the characters more, so the superiority of the "good guys" is more clearly displayed.