Genre: Analysis of Rush

Analysis for Rush film opening:

Director: Ron Howard

Awards: 7 wins and 53 nominations

Box office: Gross Worldwide $90,247,624

In the opening scene of Rush are introduced to the conventional location in motorsport sub-genre in action adventure films, the conventional location is the race track, the whole of the opening is set in grounds of the race track, it is in the pits where the audience is introduced to the costumes used in the opening; those costumes that are used are the conventional costumes used in this genre and they are race suits, this is the professional race ware and bearing in mind this film is a true story it needs to follow the truth and not just the conventional elements used in this genre.

The props are the cars themselves  and the helmets, these props foreshadow that the cars will be used for racing and that the races will probably be dangerous which is why the racers are using the helmets, this also emphasises how professional and important these races and racers are in the motorsport world. As the film is a true story it have to show all of the key elements and include all the key facts, this is shown to the audience through a post production non-diegetic voice over performed by Niki Lauda himself to tell his own life changing story.

The narrative and characters aren't as conventional as other films in this genre as this film is also a true story so it can't be changed to fit the rest of the genre so the film shows the usual conventional elements through the props, costume, and location; they only use these three as they can't change the characters in it because if they did that it wouldn't create the same effect for the viewers that already know the story and are passionate about it as it would come across the way that most movies that were books were changed which wasn't a popular choice by most viewers, the narrative also needed to follow the story of Niki Lauda and James Hunt to the facts and we are first shown that it sticks to the facts by in the opening being introduced to Niki Lauda's character getting into the car and putting his helmet on which signifies that the viewers are about to watch a reenactment of the moment his life would be changed forever.