Film Research: The Town

The scene opens up with a security camera footage of 3 masked men running into a bank. A man quickly jumps over the counter and takes control of the people behind it. The other men get control everyone else in the bank and make sure no one tries anything crazy. They now remove everyone's cell phones and get to work on the safe. They get a hostage to open the vault but she keeps stalling. Once its open the men proceed to take all the money and all the security camera footage. all of the sudden someone tries to enter the bank. After the person leaves the men take the hostage to their van were they make their escape. not much of the movie is told in the opening, all it does is set up how the hostage they have got with them in the first place. During the first part of the scene a bunch of short takes occur as a bank robbery has to be fast passed to beat the cops. so in this case the short takes emphasize the time crunch. unique camera techniques used were the security camera footage which made it feel a little more real. also an insert shot towards the end of the scene which shoes one of the robbers tattoos on the back of his neck. this also is an eye-line match between on of the hostages on the floor. it then cuts to some over the shoulder shots of the men pouring bleach over every surface in the bank. The ambient noise of people screaming shows the intensity and fear the civilians had. the guns used in the movie create a sense of reality as the props used dramatize the bank robbery. There were no opening credits in the opening scene. i believe this is done so you can focus all your attention. The budget for the movie was 37 million USD they made 154 million USD worldwide. awards they received includes the movie of the year at the AFI awards.