Dark Knight Opening Two Minutes Analyse

This is the opening 2 minutes to my favourite action movie Batman The Dark Knight. It shows me that it is in the action genre because there is fighting, guns and crime. The fighting in this opening 2 minutes is between the bank robbers, security guards and the civilians. This shows it is an action movie because it includes violence and a series of close combat for example in the scene they enter the bank and the gang are killing each other till the ring leader is the only one left and one civilian tries to shoot the ring leader but ends up getting gassed, this shows violence which proves it as a action movie. The guns in the opening 2 minutes is between the bank robbers, the ring leader, the security guard and the civilians. In this scene the ring leader is shown as one of the bank robbers and he ends up killing all of his team to keep the money for himself, this shows it is an action movie as it includes violence, crime and combat. The crime in the opening 2 minutes is a bank robbery, this shows it is an action movie because most action movies like 007 Skyfall and Kingsman, have crime involved. Most, if not all, action movies have a good guy and a bad guy. In this clip we are shown the bad guy called The Joker, in some movies we already know the good guy because of the title or the movie before, it tends to be a squeal. This opening 2 minutes adheres to conventions of a action with different uses the camera does close ups and long shots of the gang members and them doing warning shots and uses guns and violence. The director made this scene as realistic as possible and has done very well as this could happen in a real situation as bank robbery's are common.

This is the opening 2 minutes to my favourite comedy Step Brothers. In this opening scene we see the 4 main characters, we see the first being one of the Step Brothers (Will Ferrell) melting some cheese on nachos, he also grabs some soda and cereal whilst watching TV. In the same scene we see another main character who is the mother, this shows him still living with his mother and showing he is childish. This shows it is a comedy because you can tell he is on the older side and acting more like a teenager, we can tell he is going to be childish and hilarious. In the next scene we see the other Step Brother (John C. Reilly), around the same age, playing a video game also showing that he is childish. In the same scene we see the last main character the father and this shows he is also just as childish as the other brother. We know from the opening two minutes it will be a comedy because of the scenario. The scenario being a mother and a father of 40 year olds living with them getting together and having to get along as a family, as we find out later in the movie they cause chaos instead. We also know it is a comedy because of the actors, Will Ferrell is popular because of his comedy movies for example Get Hard and Anchorman and John C. Reilly is known for his comedic moments for example Wreck it Ralph and The Promotion. 

Genre	Conventions	Film Titles
Action	Explosions, fight scenes, chase sequence, hero and villain.	Casino Royale Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Die Hard Mission Impossible
Comedy	Funny, Funny people, Jokes, Happy and Laughing	Step Brothers Ride Along Ted Deadpool
Sci-Fi	Futuristic, CGI, Aliens, Heroes, Villains, Space, UFO	Avatar Star Wars The Matrix Jurassic Park