Rom-Coms Opening scenes
How to lose a guy in 10 days
Opening Scene
The movie starts with a montage of women's magazine covers showing articles on beauty, fashion, and love. The scene shifts to the office and we meet Andie Anderson, played by Kate Hudson. Andie wants to start writing about serious topics.Her editor assigns her a new story a piece on how to lose a guy in 10 days based on typical dating mistakes.
At the same time, Ben Barry played by Matthew McConaughey a confident advertising executive is seen in another scene at his workplace. He makes a bet with his colleagues that he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days to prove that he understands women well to get the big diamond advertising account. With both of these characters having different motives there's some chaos, misunderstanding, mixed with a bunch of funny and romantic moments makes a perfect rom com.
How the Opening Sets the Tone
The film opens with a bright and energetic vibe, establishing a playful tone with fast cuts, upbeat music, and colorful magazine covers.
It is clear from the film's bright vibe and the editing that it is a lighthearted romantic comedy and not a serious drama.
Characters
Andie is smart,confident and hardworking. She wants to start writing about topics that matter and are more meaningful like politics and world issues but her boss makes her write about giving advice on things.
Andie wears trendy but professional clothing.
Ben is charming, confident, and good at sweet talking, he likes taking on a challenge. His bet is to prove he understands women, trying to make Andie fall in love with him. We see him on his bike wearing a leather jacket.
The opening scene shows us Andie’s world and the kinds of articles she writes. The movie switches back and forth between their offices, showing how different their lives are.
Why this opening works
With the visuals and music it grabs the audience's attention, It clearly sets up the plot fast when we find out both of their motives.
The opening scene introduces the main characters Ben and Bea.
Sydney Sweeney plays Bea, a law student who goes to this crowded coffee shop just to use the bathroom
but because of their policy she can't. Ben sees her problem and pretends to be her husband
to get her the bathroom key.
After this act of kindness, they spend the day together and then go to Ben's house at night.
They talked, laughed and really connected.
The next morning Bea leaves quietly but then changes her mind and decides to come back.
As she was about to come back inside she overhears Ben talking bad about her making her feel very sad.
Meet cute: The Coffee shop interaction is a "meet-cute", a staple in rom-coms, where two characters meet
in an interesting or funny way. This situation creates an instant bond between Ben and Bea.
Bea's first impression of Ben was good because he was helpful and kind
and they had a great day together, but that changes when she overhears his conversation
with Pete his friend. This shows another side of his character.
Theme of misunderstanding - Bea overhearing the conversation sets up the main conflict. Bea feels hurt and their relationship gets
off to a bad start.
The scene starts off happy but also hints that there will be ups and downs,
some problems they will have to overcome.
27 Dresses
The opening scene starts with a flashback of when Jane was a little girl at a wedding, She rushes around helping the bride with last minute details. Even when Jane was so young she was very organized and loved helping others. This moment showed Jane's love for weddings and making it perfect for them. It fast forwards to the present where she has two weddings at the same time, she's rushing and changing her outfits in the back of a taxi. She keeps switching back and forth between the weddings, making sure everything is perfect.
While Kevin, a wedding journalist, who doesn’t believe in fairy-tale romance notices Jane and what she's doing. He becomes curious about her and sees this as an opportunity to write about a story.
Sound
The lively soundtrack adds to the upbeat and chaotic energy of the scene. Where Jane is going back and forth.
This is a good film opener because right away it grabs the audience's attention and we meet both the main characters. We see what type of person Jane is and what she values.
Kevin's role - Kevins interest in Jane hints for the possible romance but it's complicated because at first he had other reasons for getting closer to her and finding out about things but then he slowly starts to fall for her.
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