Film - Genre Research - Anchorman

In the first few seconds of the film, we see a black screen flashing title sequences as Motivating atmospheric sound is playing. The screen fades to a establishing shot of the city skyline. We then get an insert shot of a helicopter is flying into the massive city. The scene and the narrator speaking implies that whoever is in the helicopter is important. It then cuts to different angles of the helicopter flying over the city. As the helicopter lands we get close ups of the actors shoes and get insert shots of his expensive jewelry. The narrator explains to us how "god like" this man is and we get numerous shots of him putting on his suit, fixing his rings and belt building up the suspense. We then finally see a over the shoulder shot of him admiring himself in the mirror saying, "I look good." Then to imply the sense of humor and the hint of idiocy to the character he shouts to everyone to come see how good he looks. We then get multiple mid shot scenes of him at his newsroom desk getting ready for the news but in very humorous ways such as making extremely weird/ awkward noises. picking his teeth, etc. To finish the sequence, we get to watch the opening of the the news cast. It announces all the main anchors cutting from person to person, then finally their is a wide shot of all the anchors walking together but the main one talked about throughout the intro is walking in the middle and in front of everyone implying that he is the man, we still haven't heard his name however. Finally we get a mid shot from behind of him sitting at his desk and say, "Goodmorning everyone, I'm Ron Burgandy."

Budget: $26 million
Box Office: $90.6 million

Awards

• BMI Film Music Award

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