Thriller Openings

Golden Eye
This film has a good opening because there is lots of things happening when it starts, E.g. the plane flying over and the man running across the dam. Also when the action increased in the opening the editing got faster and it also started with action, E.g. the man jumping off the dam, this attracts the audience because it cuts out the boring parts of the film and gets straight into the action.

28 Days Later
This film has a good opening mainly because of the music, its very chromatic making it creepy because in the video it shows a man on his own and he can't seem to find anyone else. Also the music seems to get faster as the character and the audience finally realise what has happended to all the people and where they went to.

The Departed
This film has a good opening because its relatable or that its a significant event in history that most people will know about. It starts off with self shot footage and its all about racism and how people had to fight for equality, and there is a voice that talks over, like an all knowing person, about life and how its unfair.

Momento
The opening to this film is more of a psychological opening, in the film the main character has short term memory loss and he can't remember anything apart from what he's taken photos of. This makes it a good opening because the audience knows that it would be difficult for him to make judgements but he has written on the photos instructions for him to do, so it makes it thrilling because hes acting on these instructions that he can't remember writing.

Drive
This has a good opening because it uses a man who is using his head to out smart the police so he can get away from them. The music is good in the film too because it has a percussive tone to it and it speeds up when the police try to chase after him. The pace of the music speeds up just like his heartbeat, this then increases the tension that audience feel.

V for Vandetta
This has a good opening because it uses an alternate view on Britain, it has twisted it making it competely the opposite to what it really is. It's good because it plays of the fact that its is the opposite again and that there is one character trying to make it what it was before. All of the film is extremely exaggerated which makes it easy for the audience to realise that it is a different sort of film.