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Nowadays to make your film survive you have to give it impact right from the beginning. Your film better scream out at people, grab them by the throat and force them to watch it. It has to do something so funny, so shocking or so engrossing right at the beginning or you've lost your audience because they've just switched channels. Get your audience's attention and get them on your side. Give it bite.
If it's an action movie put an action scene right up front. Make your film start like most films end - like the intro sequences to James Bond movies or the start of Indiana Jones. Classically this would probably be called a prologue - a prelude to the rest of the film.
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