expendables 2 opening

In the opening scene of the expendables 2 there are many genre indicators that show it is an action film such as: the guns, the large cars, the explosion, there is hand to hand combat, a lot of violence, the usual unlimited ammo in each gun and one big one is the location of the film it is located in a secret area for the bad guys base.

In this opening there are many questions to be asked such as: who is bad who is good? What are they trying to do? What are the people trying to hide? Where are they? Who are they working for? Are there more people than that?

In this opening we don’t find out to much but we find out that there is a group of expert fighters that are trying to stop someone or another army from doing bad stuff and the way they do that is by fighting them right there. There seems to be 6 main heroes in the movie possibly more.

With the use of sound the sound track is able to create the fast vibe suggesting a chase or a battle of some sort, but the use of the sound is able to tell up what genre the film is with the sounds of guns explosions and vehicles this creates a rush type of mood or suggest that someone is in danger and the heroes need to hurry to reach their objectives.

Due to the fast action within the clip there were many effective clips that support the fast vibe. For example in the chase scene it was like we were driving next those from a long shot looking from the side of the cars. There was also a great use of over the shoulder shots this was effective as this help give the impression as your one of the characters backing up the other.