Superbad (2007)
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Written by: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogan
Starring: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogan
Certificate: 15
Superbad begins with a surreal opening credits in an array of bright colours, before showing Seth (Jonah Hill) in his car, and on the phone to Evan (Michael Cera) discussing money and a production, before he pulls up outside Evans house, and Evan gets in his car.
The opening sequence doesn’t really use any genre conventions, and nothing really happens yet. The only convention is probably the bright lighting, which is a feature in almost all comedy films, but at this point in the film, nothing but a phone call happens, and not much happens in that. We can’t tell much about the characters at this point either, which would normally be used to generalise the larger than life character types used in comedy films.
Seeing as this film opening has very little happening, it’s difficult to say what the target audience would be. Also, the film opening is of very little help for my groups own opening sequence, as we would like something to happen that isn’t a rather boring phone call.
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