The opening sequence of Man on the Moon starts out with Andy Kaufman breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the audience. He makes fun of the movie you are about to watch. He then cuts off the credits, making the screen go black for a while, before returning, saying that he just did that to get rid of the people who didn’t really want to see. We then see him as a child, jumping on his bed, pretending to host a TV show involving his stuffed animals and the baseball players on his wall, and then playing a song for his sister. This shows us that Andy always had dreams of being a TV star, even from a very young age, although he did not start out successfully. At first glance, it seems to be fairly straight forward, but it aks more questions than it answers. Is the person who spoke at the start Andy Kaufman? When did the movie actually start being the movie? It extends the question, who is Andy Kaufman?
The opening sequence of The Elephant Man starts with an extreme close up of a woman’s face, fading to shots of elephants, and then with elephants superimposed on top of her eyes. You see the elephants throw the woman down, and she appears to be frightened. The screen cuts to black, and you can hear a baby cry as the screen fills with smoke. This shrouds the origin of the Elephant Man in mystery.
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