Assessment 2: Analysis Of An Opening Scene

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I Have Chosen To Analys Rob Zombies Remake Of Halloween, The Clip Is Shown Above.

The opening scene to Rob Zombies remake of Halloween starts by showing you the background story of what happened to Michael as a child where everything began. The scene is set in the kitchen of the families home, which is unclean, scruffy, and in very bad condition, which shows that the family has a little amount of money. You know the scene is set in the morning time as the family is going to eat breakfast through the use of props we can gather the time of day and the way the family live. However before we get to the kitchen we see a young Michael playing with what looks like a pet rat, this comes in a few minutes later. As the daughter comes down stairs she starts an argument with her mother and gets sent to bring Michael downstairs to eat, her mothers boyfriend makes a perverted comment about her daughter and the mother reacts, this is when we are taken into the bathroom where Michael is washing his hands and a blade that we realize he has used to kill his rat from earlier. This scene is what starts the rest of the movie as he moves from the rat onto bigger things, in the scene we do not see the event take place but we do see the aftermath. Michael continues downstairs and tells his mother that his pet died again. The relationship between Michael and his mother’s boyfriend Ronnie is a bad one that continues through the rest of the movie, we can see this because of the way they look and speak to each other. It is mostly Ronnie being horrible to Michael because he finds he has authority over him, where as his mother is shown to be protective of him. The scene introduces the main character and his first killing (even if it is just his pet rat).