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For a screenplay, I am writing, basically there is a crime that goes wrong and the gang of villains, ends up chasing down one of their own, who they do not trust anymore and want to stop him from risk of talking.
During the chase, a cop on patrol (the protagonist), sees the chase happening and decides to intervene and finds out what's happening.
This is the opening scene of the story, and what happens during this, sets off the remaining plot to come.
However, I am undecided on how I should introduce the protagonist. Should I thrust him into the action write away, like the cop in this movie scene, at 1:02 into the clip:
In that scene the cop, although not the protagonist, is thrust right into the action without any prior dialogue or any prior time to his character.
Or I could introduce the main character, in a way that gives him some dialogue and background first, such as this scene, before being thrust into the action:
Even if he is thrust into the action without any background to the character, in the opening scene, we still get a lot of background introduced later, after the action event has settled down.
And if I were to have a longer scene to introduce him it would disrupt the chase. Or is having a background introduce beforehand necessary for any reason at this point?
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