Film Opening Analysis

 October 27, 2021

                                                                           Us (2019)

                        The movie “Us” is about Adelaide Wilson and her family going back to the beachfront house where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned that something bad is going to happen. But her son insists that they go. Her worst fears became reality when four masked doppelgangers came upon the house, forcing the Wilson's family to fight for their survival. They soon learn there's an entire world of doppelgangers hiding within an elaborate tunnel system beneath the surface

                                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm82qvn5Crs

The opening scene in us focus on rabbits being locked up in cages, symbolizing the loss of free will and movement. When Adelaide was switched, Red had more control of her body as she was from the surface.

                                                                 The Conjuring (2013)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCxOkeSB848

The opening scene for  first story of The Conjuring franchise takes us all the way back to Romania in 1952. The series begins with an evil demon attacking two nuns while they try to obtain an ancient Christian relic. While one nun died from the encounter, the surviving nun (Charlotte Hope) wound up taking her own life.

                                                            

                                                                 The greatest showman 

The greatest showman is about a boy wanting to be a circus owner.  P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, selling lottery tickets by age 12. After trying his hands at various jobs, P.T. turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth.

                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OIFwfDEVg

 

The opening scene of the greatest showman starts off with Barnum performing in a large circus full of people. But then he realize that he was dreaming.