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The beginning of a film is often one of the most essential parts of the story, it can either introduce you to characters, or it can set the seen, the place, time, it can do all sorts of things. But a good beginning to a film must first of all grip the audience and interest them with in the first ten minutes, according to Syd Fields. In the first ten minutes of Reservoir Dogs we see all the members of the gang that have been brought together to rob the diamonds, they are all sat around a table in a café eating breakfast, they are all wearing suits bar two “Joe” and “Nice guy Eddie”, they are all discussing various topics, and these topics and the things that these men say are all interlinked with that particular persons personality, then after this is cuts to the credits wear we hear, “Hey this K-Billy’s super sounds of the seventies…keep on truckin!” which has an important role in the film, and continues to play some music from the seventies. Now this is a very good beginning to the film, as you watch it for the first time you do not realise that this particular scene has no relevance to the remained of the film. The opening scene isn’t even the beginning of the story, (non-linear film), no the job