Monday 2 January 2012

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)


It opens with an orchestra playing the drums and brass instruments, this creates a light, normal atmosphere but then starts the music starts to get louder and darker as the camera zooms into the band. It stops in front of a man who slowly picks up a pair of cymbals, and crashes them together. When it stops he holds them up and the a passage appears in front of them 'A single crash of cymbals and how it rocked the lives of an american family.'

This opening is interesting because of its use of simplicity and mystery, it reveals very little of the story and is hard to understand until the end. I would like to use similar aspects of this in my opening, because it creates suspense and intrigue.

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