"500 Days of Summer" is about how a boy meets a girl, however as an audience we may instantly assume that this film is a love story but the narrator tells is that it is not. This gives us a bit more insight of what the rest of the film might be about but we want to know why it isn't a love story. This makes the opening sequence build a kind of anticipation for the audience because we don't exactly know what the story will be about.
The film makers have done this by showing us the 488th day out of 500 where both of the characters are sat on a bench with a hand over another and we get a shot of the girl wearing an engagement ring but we don't know if she is marrying the boy next to her. The scene then moves to the 1st day and the narrator gives us some insight on the characters. We learn their names, Tom and Summer, and a but about their background but we still don't get any further insight to their relationship which again adds anticipation. However, the narrator does say that Tom thinks Summer is the one, so this is an extra insight into his character and how quickly he falls in love.
The film makers also add anticipation by having a sort of melancholy whistling which turns into soft background music. Also at the beginning we see some text which says "Author's note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental" then it cuts to a black screen for a second and then the words "especially you Jenny Beckham" which then goes into another black screen until the word "B**ch" comes up. This is a good dramatic effect because now as we watch the film we know that the director has based this on a girl, it also gives us more of a desire to watch more and to find out what has happened so this adds more anticipation to the opening sequence.
We then assume that the rest of the pot will be about us seeing what happened between those characters and how they got to the place they were on the 488th day.
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