top 20 films of all time

Rank	Rating	Title	Votes
1.	9.2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	559,483
2.	9.2	The Godfather (1972)	436,779
3.	9.0	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	264,437
4.	8.9	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	175,580
5.	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	446,565
6.	8.9	Schindler's List (1993)	296,364
7.	8.9	12 Angry Men (1957)	131,419
8.	8.9	Inception (2010)	295,076
9.	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	231,263
10.	8.8	The Dark Knight (2008)	499,417
11.	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)	295,424
12.	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)	389,309
13.	8.8	Seven Samurai (1954)	103,366
14.	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	411,781
15.	8.7	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	338,572
16.	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)	245,787
17.	8.7	Casablanca (1942)	177,118
18.	8.7	City of God (2002)	180,514
19.	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)	412,185
20.	8.7	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)	80,722

     In this list of the top 20 films of all time the majority of the films are full of the action genre which all have crime involved in them, the films such as Goodfellas, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction. However, because we have chosen to create a hybrid for our opening sequence on romance/action we are looking for a film throughout this top 20 on this. We know some such as Mr and Mrs Smith and Knight and Day which we have looked at most to take our idea for our opening sequence although these aren't in the top 20. But there is plenty of the films that show a lot of romance and action even if they are individual and in separate films on their own. But therefore this does show how popular each of these two genres are so we hope that our idea of putting both of them together for a hybrid which make the audience enjoy it. What makes us think this even more is there are a few in this top 20 films of all time that have a little bit of each in, and if they are in this top 20 then it just shows that they are good and successful. The films that involve this are The dark knight, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Casablanca. Casablanca is the film out of all these hybrid ones that reflects the most on what we want our opening sequence to be like. The film Casablanca was created in 1942 but looks as though it is set in 1920 which is the idea we were going for, also with its editing of black and white and on the film cover sepia. We want to do ours in black and white for some parts to show off what day and age it is in especially with the characters, because the black and white will have an effect on what they are dressed in to create a better showing of 1920's.