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HOW DOES THE SEQUENCE ESTABLISH THE TONE OF THE FILM (GENERATE SUSPENSE)?The movie is introduced by the typical noise that the metro

does when its starting to move, it is followed by a panoramic view of a very big city , with a lot of skyscrapers, probably Newyork , already giving the audience a feeling that something big is going to happen.

After a short amount of time the tile sequences start to appear. They look as a train passing by , leaving behind names and companies

The scene will then pass to a frenetic pace that gets the audience interest increase, the sound increases and the camera starts to focus on a determined place , the streets of Newyork.

Here there is frenetic view of the street with cars trying to join the public, all of them look as if they were in a rush. The noise is really difficult to stand and the volume of the sound is very high increasing the attention of the audience.

Continuing in the scene the actors are introduced with the titles imbedded in the scene itself making it look really fluent .the scene is going very fast but it slows down to introduce the characters which make them look really scary and aggressive because the way that they are dressed and their body language that looks really confident.

While introducing the characters , the camera slows down and zooms to and extreme close up the character, in this case is john travolta that is scene with his hat and glasses trying to cover his true identity. This generate suspense and seriosity in the audience because now we know that something is happening.In the next scene we can see the name of the train on which all of the characters are getting on and by knowing the title of the movie the audience can immediately understand which generates an enormous amount of suspense.

The next scene is introduced by the control room of the Newyork underground , this is probably going to control the trainThat is going to be taken.This also introduces the next character, which is usually in some Thriller movies.Following there is a scene of the character saying that he should be In the office that they are looking at , suggesting that some thing hasHappened in the past making him stay in the lower ranks.

The suspense increases when we encounter the first problem of the Movie were the train is stuck in a place were it is not supposed to beAnd the two views don’t match. Generating a lot of suspense.

The scene is followed by an other major problem increasing the suspense and introducing all of the places were the issues are.Following we are introduced to the rest of the passengers which get on to the train right before the criminals.