Action Comedy

Opening scene. Comedy.

 I have chosen to analyse a comedy opening scene as it has influenced me and my group to do comedy. I am analyzing Ali G opening scene. The film Ali G is a parody comedy. Parody comedy means something created to mock, comment on or poke fun on at an original work.

The typography of the opening scene of Ali G is Bold and White. Bold and white signifies purity and innocence.

Mis-en-scene in this opening scene you can see that there is a lot of gangsters on the road where Ali G is driving and the whole point of the film Ali G is to mock gangsters. We see two girls that are really good looking and Ali G trying to save them from the gangsters and he does so. Also we see that the gangsters try to shoot Ali G however Ali G is trying to save the kid that is crossing the road so the kid does not risks his life and saves the kid. However it is all a dream of Ali G wanting to be like that.

There is a enigma code used in the film as the gangsters are shooting the audience think that Ali G or the kid is going to get shot however they do not know that it is all a dream.

The genre of this film is Parody Comedy. Parody comedy is something created to mock, comment on or poke fun on at an original work.

There is a really interacting sound track over everything that is happening, the sound track is a old school 1980 Jamaican song. The Jamaican song is chosen on purpose because Ali G dresses like a Jamaican and also puts on a Jamaican accent.

There is a lot of close up shots in the film Ali G as it is trying to show facial expressions to make people laugh also there is medium shots to show how tough people are and if they have a weapon, what they are wearing and all these things. The medium close ups are used to show anything that signifies gangsters as it is a gangster mocking film. In this film I haven't witnessed more then 2 long shots.

There is abit of editing in the opening scene as it is a scene where the main character is getting shot at as the whole audience will guess that the main character wouldnt die in the beginning scene. There is a effect used when Ali G is getting shot at and he blocks a bullet with a ring.

In conclusion I think that Ali G has a really good opening for the opening scene because it gives quite a good taster of how the film is going to be to the ones who never watched it. It suits the genre of parody and gives of a really funny emotion.