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How the directors of 'Gladiator' and 'Saving Private Ryan' create the opening of their films appeal to an audience. In this essay I am going to be comparing the similarities between the opening scenes of 'Gladiator' and 'Saving Private Ryan.' The Areas I will study are: - Events, Characters, Dialogue, Sound, Music, Camera Work and Visual Effects. There are several aspects that contribute to the effectiveness of a film's opening. Commonly, it requires a strong setting, in order to involve the audience and to maintain their interest them from the start. Furthermore an opening of a film needs to create compassion and commiseration from the director. Directors usually try to keep the flow of the film going in order to gain the viewers interest; they might introduce the use of different camera angles to focus on a particular point of the film in order to involve the audience. In the film 'Gladiator the...

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