This has got to be one of my all time favourite intros to a movie. It's taken from the film 'Thank You For Smoking' in 2005 starring Aaron Eckhart and directed by Jason Reitman, whose first feature film this was. Aaron, who plays Nick Naylor, is a lobbyist for cigarettes but i'm not going to sit here and talk about the film.
The build up for this intro is quick, snappy and straight to the point, covered in whit and humour. It's Nick vs the world, everyone is against smoking and it's blindly obvious that cigarettes aren't good for you but Nick will tell you otherwise and it's difficult not to believe him... In the movie that is. He's a great speaker and he will get you on his side. The speech was written to perfection with him ending it with a very powerful line and makes you feel as if he is 'the man', where you anticipate him to beat everything that comes up against him.
The filming was brilliant i really got sucked in. When he was speaking from the stand, and he turns his head to talk, the camera sped up then slowed down at the same time a machine gun was going off and he ended it with a cheeky wink, genius. I loved it. Really motivated me into wanting to film something special and unique that i want to make an audience feel how i felt when i first watched that scene.
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