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In Media Res - "In midst of things"
| Explosive Beginnings:The Hurt Locker Opening Scene Analysis By Caroline Phillips The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) is an award-winning film that captured the attention of many filmmakers and audiences It’s a film about an Army bomb squad in Iraq during the war that must find and disarm bombs in order to protect people...READ MORE
Opening Scene:
The Hurt Locker has a very untraditional beginning; there are no credits and beginsin medias res. It jumps right into the characters in action. The story is told in linear form with some flashbacks. |
I think the "in media res" way of beginning a movie is much better because it starts the viewer off with something interesting and in the middle of action, which is the part that the viewers like the most. I really don't like the slow mo method of the third video here because it seems to take such a long time and left me wanting the move to just start already.
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