Hancock

This movie starts of witha car chase and lots of quick shots. There is non-digetic sound of country/cowboy music that contrasts with the scene. I found it very different when I first watched it as that is not what I normally expect in a film with the thriller genre. It then switches shot to 'Hancock' lying asleep on a bench - this is a big contrast between the car chase then someone asleep. The music also changes with it going slower and it has the digetic sound of him snoring whereas before it was cars beeping and screeching. We see empty bottles rolling away from him which leads the audience to assume that he is/a drunk. The scene then switches back to the car chase with the comedic music still going on and the so called badies shooting the police. The pace of the film here is really quick with lots of zoom and pans giving the effect of movement and that makes it feel tense, however when we see ' hancock' again sleeping on the bench the pace has slowed back down again. I found this bit quite funny and also very interesting as it leaves the audience feeling slightly baffled and not knowing what/is going to happen in the rest of the film.

He then gets woken up by a little boy. It takes Hancock quite awhile to wake up but when he does the boy knows his name so we can assume he is the superheroe. This is the first 2 minutes of the film.

I really enjoyed and thought it was very funny with a very clever opening. I think that it has quite a wide target audience because I watched it with my mum,dad and brother and they all enjoyed it.

Here is a link for the first part on you tube http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gIOaK29ps