3 opening scenes from thriller films.

1. Thriller Opening
scenes
Tom Hughes
John chelepis
Leo murphy
Sam dearden

2. Memento
- Christopher nolan
Nolan, being a very versatile director has done a bunch of
different genre films, but the one we are concerned about is
‘Memento (2000)’.
The opening sequence of this film was very interesting,
featuring lots of interesting camera work, as well as
hermeneutic codes.
The reversing of the whole scene was something that
interested our group, and also the gun shot at the end with
Teddy shouting and cutting to black was something our
group incorporated into our script, and our ending was in the
original script.

3. The opening Sequence

4. Shoot the Pianist
- francois truffaut
Shoot The Pianist was made during the French new wave
period of films where the ‘Du Cinema’ group of filmmakers
challenged the traditional codes and conventions of
American Cinema.This film challenged the Thriller genre.
This film started off with a character running away from a
couple of gangster type figures, to which he manages to
escape from, then stops to talk to a random stranger about
marriage and women.
This bizzare and wild opening did have a couple of inputs on
our script, such as the hermanutic codes of being chased, as
well as the use of quick cutting and tracking shots.

5. The silence of the lambs
- john demme
The third film to win the major five films at the Oscars,
classed mainly as a psychological thriller, it is a film we
thought that would be influential of our opening.
The opening sequence follows Jodie Foster doing an assault
course, this opening establishes her physical and mental
strength despite her petit size. But what interested our group
most was the feeling that the camera conveys.The feeling of
being watched or followed by the use of tracking shots was
something that we thought would be good in our opening, so
we have added that into our script.

6. The opening sequence

7. The opening sequence