Goodfellas is a drama film released in 1990 and directed by Martin Scorsese. It stars Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito, Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill and Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill.
The opening sequence starts with three men in a car, which one of them is asleep. The driver hears a noise and thinks its a the car making the noise, presuming he ran over something. However the man sitting in the back of the car says to pull over to check the car to see if everything is ok. They all get out of the car and hear movement from the boot of the car. they all then prepare themselves with their guns and knives and proceeded to open the boot. A man that is only just alive is in there with blood everywhere, they don't see that fussed and stab and then shoot the man to make sure he dies. from this opening scene we can already guess that
The target audience for this film is definitely aimed for adults and young adults due the shear brutality of the stabbing and shooting. This is also the case due to the general theme of gangsters is an older topic, that young children may not enjoy.
With gangsters usually being related with the city of New York, the accents of the men in the car and the way that they are smartly dressed already connotes that it maybe be a film about a group of gangsters. How innocent the men are to start with, confuses the audience as they don't seem bad people until they pop their boot. You can tell that they are psychotic when they don’t seem phased at all that there is a dying man in their boot and just continue to stab and shoot him with no hesitation. This completely changes the audiences view on the men and how they act.
I personally think that it is a very successful opening sequence as it confuses the viewer to think they are good people but then your view of them quickly changes when the boot opens . However on the other hand it could easily turn away more screamish audience members due to the gore and violence.
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