They also introduce the story telling style of the film, which in turn sets the pace of the film. This is important in crime and mystery thrillers specifically as it establishes to the audience how fast events occur and to build up suspense through held back information, this may be accomplished through narrational story telling, succh as in films like fight club and gone girl: Gone Girl - opening
The beginig of thrillers also allow for insight into the story and characters andintroduce a hook to peak the interest of the audience and spark questions, one particular film, 'Escape from Alcatraz'(1979) introduces the character of criminal Frank Morris being take to the prison, the lack of dilogue in this opening scene poses questions to the audience such as, Who is this character? What crime has he committed? how was he caught? which all contribute to the hook of the story to keep the audience in suspense.
'The bourne identity' (2002) engages it's audience throughout it's opening scene for a number of reasons. The scene Introduces the character of Jason Bourne unconcious in the sea in the middle of a storm, and is picked up by a passing fishing boat and is operated by the ships docter, Bourne wakes up with no memory and briefly attacks the docter. The scene establishes the atmosphere and setting through the pathetic fallacy of the storm and the gentle rocking and low key lighting of the boats rusty interior. Jason's aggresive confusion shows the audience the seriousness of the situation snd the action thriller genre of the film is introduced through sudden hand-held camrawork and quick cuts between close and mid shots during the action sequence that occurs in the scene.
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