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Gravity, which is a suspense/thriller and Sci-Fi/Fantasy movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and was released on October 4,2013. Gravity is about when two astronauts work together to survive after an accident which leaves them alone in space. Sandra Bullock plays a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with George Clooney as a veteran astronaut in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes.That’s when the shuttle is destroyed and leaves them alone, as fear turns into panic and every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. The only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.The first impressions such as the opening or hook of a movie will either make someone continue to watch it or not. What interests a person to watch a movie, it has to have a strong opening. As the book states, First Impressions: The Art and Craft of Storytelling, “Beginnings are the sales pitch for your entire story” (Weiland, 338). The movie represents the qualities of a strong opening. The qualities are: “Don’t open before the beginning, opens with characters, conflict, movement, establishes the setting, orient readers and they set a tone” (Weiland, 339). One of the traits for a good hook is opening with characters which in this movie many of the main characters are shown within the first few minutes of the movie. Another quality is it has to open with conflict.This movie also opened with conflict. “Conflict keeps the pages turning, and turning pages are nowhere more important than in the beginning” (Weiland, 339). The tone for Gravity would be the execution of various sound platforms. The movie starts off with a quote, “There is nothing to carry sound- no air pressure - no oxygen.”
Works Cited:
Weiland, K.M. “The Hook.” Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Writing and Reading Across Curriculum. Pearson. Boston.2016. pp.337-342.Print.

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