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Compare and contrast the openings of Team America (2004) and Thunderbirds the movie (1966) Team America and Thunderbirds are both action adventure films that use puppetry and voice acting. Although they both follow Torodov's narrative theory, they do it in completely different ways. Thunderbirds was aimed at children and was given a U bbfc rating but has gathered a cult following in recent years. Team America is what is considered to be a "hybrid" of genres. It is an action adventure but also a satirical comedy that ridicules films such as Thunderbirds. Both films open with non-diegetic music which has connotations of glory and heroism but only 30 seconds into Team America and it becomes apparent that this film isn't aimed at children. The Team America theme tune involves many swearwords and vulgar references to sex, the opening sequence finishes with an unrealistic model of the world blowing up. Whilst...

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