In Medias Res Examples

Examples:

In medias res is when the story starts in the middle of the action with no introduction. The advantage to this techinique is that the audience is captured immediatly

Examples:

The first scene of the television show Breaking Bad opens with Walter White wearing a mask driving an RV full of dead people and meth. This is a great example of in medias reg because the story opens up in the very middle of the action with no explanation or events leading up.

Forrest Gump also is an example of in medias reg because the story begins chronologically in the middle. The narrator tells his story through a series of flashbacks.

The Odyssey actually begins almost at the end of the journey and the previous events are told through a series of flashbacks. The reader is immediatly captured in the story and wants to know how the character came to be in the position he is in now.

Inception's first scene is cobb washing up on a shore and the rest of the story is explaining how he got there.

National Treasure begins with the characters digging up a ship in Alaska without any explanation of how they got there or why they are even there.

In Batman Begins, the movie opens with Bruce Wayne in prison with no explanation. The story then flashes back to fill in the watcher on the previous scenes.

Each book of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga opens with a preface that is actually describing a scene that happens near the climax of the story.

Fight club starts with Tyler Durden holding a gun to the narrator's mouth then going back and catching the audience back up.

The Red Mars trilogy opens the night of the assassination of John Boone, the first man on Mars, then jumps back almost 27 years earlier.

Hangover I and II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuiBesJNlEE

Pirates of the Caribean (all of them)

Iron Man

Captain America

Lost - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KlnQyjiZ5w

Holes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rrF7egvQ4

Odyssey

The Painted Vail - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFktc6WgpQs

Indianna Jones (all of them)

Shawshank Redemption - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmWfb7bfxQ

In the Divine Comedy, it opens with "midway into the journey of our life"

"The Gambler" starts the action in the middle

"Raging Bull"

"God of War" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn4R_YeDybY

"Dark Knight" opens with the bank robbery:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OYBEquZ_j0

"The Borne Legacy" opens with people chasing after the character, who is an escaped military test subject.

"Saving Private Ryan" opens with the soldiers storming the beach of Omaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtlP2vrIq_w

"Infamous" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Te2CrQsjE