Film openings: Ironman

Ironman

At the start of Ironman we start of seeing a man in a suit with several soldiers sitting around him. The man in a suit says "peace i love peace, id be out of a job with peace".Then there's an explosion and gun fire straight away indicating that this is of the action genre. The initial casual opening followed by very fast paced action including the death of the soldiers, gun fire and explosions surrounding the man in a suit draws the audience into questions about who the man is and why hes being attacked. By creating this enigma the opening scene makes the audience question what they are watching. the man tries to run away and hide but a rocket lands next to him and we see the name stark on the side of the rocket. There's another explosion and we then see the man held in a terrorist video. obviously this man is extremely important but why would he be out in the middle of a war zone. 

For all these reasons Ironman has a good opening scene. very quickly showing us that this film is a action film.