'The Maze Runner' and 'The Matrix'

Both of these films are successful and they are hybrids that include the Dystopia genre, so even though they have not been as influential as 'Mad Max: Fury Road' or 'I am Legend', they have still helped us understand this genre more through conventions and the mood and atmosphere's we want to be creating. For example, 'The Matrix' follows Sci-Fi conventions: advanced technology, special effects, alternate worlds, conflict between good and evil (binary opposite), many close ups and extreme close ups and uses a complex plot through the ideology of 'is this reality?' These conventions used allows the film to follow the Dystopia sub genre.
 This effected our opening as we ensured that we were following or subverting conventions purposefully. An example of this, is our choice of following the convention of a lawless society but subverting the idea of post modern conventions, like talking to the audience or using intertextuality to increase the chances of audience pleasures such as: recognition.