Children of Men starts off a being calm and relaxed with the main character, Theo Faron, walks into a coffee shop then walks out onto a typical London street. However this film, even at the start, creates a sense of mystery as when in the coffee shop, there are loads of people there watching the News. This is because the youngest person in the world has died at the age of 18. This creates mystery as the audeince wants to watch on to find out why he is the youngest person in the World and how he died. Furthermore as the film goes on and Theo walks out of the coffee shop a bomb goes off inside which creates adrenaline and shock as to why there was a bomb there in the first place. Moreover the audience looks at Theo when the bomb goes off due to the camera angles so the audience attention is diverted which builds even more shock which I will use in my own opening of a thriller movie to create the atmosphere of suspension and shock. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikW8z4I2hcI (In German)
A History of Violence like Children of Men starts off with a calm and relaxed atmosphere as not much happens in the first half of the opening. This is emphasised by the background noise of the bugs hissing and the actors looking calm and bored and talking amongst one another in a tranquil manner. However this film creates shock and violence when you realise that one of the men has killed the two people that where in the shop when he went in and the other man kills the little girl whom appears from the other room. This creates astonishment as the film was calm then there was a sudden burst of action when he kills the girl. Also there is almost a sinister act to this as you dont believe that he will do it becasue he pulls his finger to his lips to hush the little girl then when he does it, it surprises the audince which I will use in my own opening to create the shock that thriller movie need.
Memento starts with the main charater, Leonard, holding a Polariod picture with blood on it which is going in reverse with the image of a man dead on the floor to it going blank. It then carries on with him shooting the man then him waking up in his hotel room and talking to himself. That part is in black and white which shows the audince that it is a memory which I will use in my thrille ropening if I decide to has part of the story line as a memory. It then proceeds with it going back in time to Leonard meeting the Teddy, the man he shoots in the first scene, at his hotel. This would intrigue the audince as to why Leonard would shoot this man and be so violent towards him when he seems close to him which would shock the audince further. Moreover the audince would want to carry on watching as its quite a confusing and mysterious opening to a film so they would want to find out whats going on with Leonard and his condition. Finally there is an Enigma in this film as Leonard trys to work out who killed his wife but this film tricks the audince as it was really Leonard himself who kills his wife and his condition is him blocking out the memory.
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