The opening for the film Goodfellas firstly features a subtitle, enabling the viewer to see that the film is based on true events and a real story, which would interest the viewer immensely as they will realise that things they are about to see have and could happen in the world that they live in, giving a sense of reality to the film. Next, the subtitle writes “New York, 1970” giving the viewer a sense of setting for the film, with this particular city and era of time being popular in these kinds of crime thriller films giving the viewer an understanding of things to come in the film. After this, it cuts to a shot of 3 well dressed ‘gangster’ males driving an expensive car along a road, a very stereotypical view of this genre of film and the characters associated with them. Then we hear the sound of banging coming from the boot of their car, another stereotype of ‘gangsters’ before they pull over, open the boot (revealing a badly injured male cover in blood and gunshot wounds) and finish off the individual with further shots coming from the gangsters guns to eventually kill the male. After this, we hear a monologue of one of the characters speaking the words “As far as I can remember I wanted to be a gangster” accompanied with the non diegetic sounds of brass instruments of which are also usually associated with this genre, especially in the context of the particular era that this film is shot in.
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