Scary Movie 4: opening scenes

Scary Movie 4 is a horror comedy film which takes extracts from serious horror films and makes them into funny scenes. The movie has not really got a story line to it, it just makes films which are meant to be scary, funny. Therefore we should look at the opening scene to this film and see how they create humor and grab the attention of the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FES426W4Xw

The first shots we see are of Shaquille O'neal, with his head in the bath full of water. He then pulls his head out and is about to start walking when he bangs his head on a metal pipe and then on the ceiling. Humor is created here because your not expected Shaq to bump his head at all but manages to do it twice in the space of a few seconds. The audience will be already interested because they regonise Shag as a famous super star.

We then meet Dr. Phil who also has no clue like Shaq to where they are, when a man in a mask appears and tells them they have a 120 second to get the antidote or they will both die. This is where the film starts to get slightly intense as both Shak and Dr. Phil know they have to escape from the chains on their legs. To do this they have to put somethign heavy through the basketball net. On the first attempt Shaq misses, hits a metal pole and lands on Dr. Phils head. Humor is created hear because not only do the audience think Shaq could not miss, but he also manages to hit his partner in the head. He then trys again, and does the same thing but manages to knock a light onto Dr. Phils head created a similar humor.

We then see both of them argueing to each other for some stupid reason and both of them ending up trying to comfort each other. Here humor is created because it is has nothing to do with the situation there in and there both comferting each other when they know they are going to die soon. Eventaully, Shaq hits the shot and two saws drop down. They both realise that cutting through the chain is not going to happen, so they end up having to chop there foot off. Shaq manages to make Dr. Phil go first. Humor is created here as Shaq makes the doctor angry and then the shot of Shaq's face also creates humor. Finally we then see Dr. Phil successfully cut off his foot, but he doesnt notice hes cut off the wrong foot. Humor is created here because the audience would expect that a "Doctor" would know which foot to cut off.

The opening scene to scary movie 4 does provide Humor which we could relate to, but also we couldnt relate to because our film is nto based on horror comedy.