Film - Genre Research - Here Comes The Boom

Within the first few seconds, the screen fades from the Columbia screen right to the opening scene of the movie. In the opening scene, the screen pans around the getting many insert shots of the honorable awards that he has presented. You can also hear the atmospherical sound of birds chirping indicating that it's morning. The shots of his many awards show that he was a very talented wrestler and is now a teacher and has found a lot of success in that field. Then the camera pans toward a man snoring loadly in his bed. We're followed by a close up of his face sleeping peacefully until he wakes himself up, looks up at the clock and due to the close up, we see his face expression turns relaxed to paniced implying that he's extremely late for something. We see him flung out of bed as the handheld camera moves rapidly and the it cuts quickly to him speeding on his motorcycle. We now are are presented with short takes of him speeding on his motorcycle to get to his work. The scenes cut for scene to see and with the addition of the short takes and the fast paced music, we know that he's in a hurry to get to wherever he's going. As he finally arrives at the school he sees that all the gates are locked, then proceeds to drive across the football field as the janitor stares at him curiosly giving a sense of humor to the film. As he approaches the front of the school shot reverse shot of him and somebody standing at the door, he then proceeds to sprint away from the door as if he's trying to be unseen from the man. In the final few seconds of the introduction, we watch as the man clumsly pulls himself through the window of his classroom and to his surprise the man he was hiding from was standing right there; this final scene also sets the comedy tone of the movie and the humility behind the character.

Budget: $42 million
Box Office: $73.1 million

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