iron man opening scene

in the opening scene to iron man one of the first things the audience sees is two men in a vehicle. one of the men is wherein a suit and the other man is wherein an american army uniform.because the man in the vehicle is wherein an army uniform the audience can tell that this is an action film. in most films with war and the army as a main topic also consist of explosions and guns which are conventions of action films.a few seconds later on in this clip we see an explosion. explosions generally occur in action films more then any other genre. the explosion also indicates that the film had a very large budget because they of  actually had an explosion and if the explosion didn't look right then they would of had to keep repeating this explosion. in the scene we also see guns being used and the vehicle that the main character is in is being shot at. guns are a convention of a lot of action films because it gives the audience the thrill of knowing that the characters in the film could be killed at any moment and that the whole mood of the film could change within a second of one of the main characters being shot. most of the scene the camera is focused on one character. this tells the audience that this is going to be the main character for the film. the reason that the main character gets so many close ups and why the camera is focused on them  the most is because the makers of the film wants the audience to sympathies

at the end of the scene the main character is captured by (terrorists) looking people after he pases out because of another explosion this sets up the rest of the scene to be an escape scene. an escape scene is another convention of an action film because the audience finds these scenes to be thrilling,exciting and joyful. the reason that the enemy in the film is a foreighn character is because iron man is an american film and the audience will want to see an american hero and a forighn enemy