Thomas Sutcliffe suggests that the beginning of the film needs to get the audience on edge and excite them but it is quite hard to prevent yourself from showing all the excitement from the film right at the beginning or at the title sequence.
According to director Jean Jacques Beineix, What are the risks of 'instant arousal'
There is more pressure for the film to be more interesting as the film has to excite the audience in a different manner and as the film goes on the audience has to be on edge to wonder what's going to happen next.
Explain why " a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn't know nearly enough yet, and at the same time make sure that it doesn't know too little"
This might be because the audience needs to know just about enough about the film to see if they would like it and have the instigation to want to watch it and to be intrigued, however the audience should not know a lot about the film as the audience would not see the whole point of the film and get bored during the film as they will guess what will happen next.
What does critic Stanley Kauffmann describe as the classic opening? Why does this work?
He elucidates an establishing shot of New york city from the East. There is then a close up of building. The camera moves up the building and goes to a close up of the window. this classic opening works as it tells us where the film is set and tells us the occupation of the ' Hero'
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