The film begins with the camera pans down to the left to show a home, and at this point the title roles in. It then fades to a close up of photos of a cat and a man. The camera pans across many photos of the two together. Next the camera pans slowly past a man asleep in a bed and finally pans onto something asleep under a cover. You can hear snoring and then an alarm clock rings. The camera becomes a mid shot (cat wise) of the cat waking up and he repeats his quote ‘I hate Mondays’. The camera then tracks the cat climbing onto the main bed and up to the man’s chest. He then tracks back and up a chair, some books, a TV and a book shelf. It cuts to an over the shoulder shot of the cat looking at the man asleep in bed. It then cuts back to the cat just before he jumps. It then cuts to an extreme long shot of the cat jumping onto the man’s bed. This wakes up the man. This shot slides off and the new shot of the bath slides in. It then pans up from the bath to show a shower. It then cuts to the cat sat on a toilet then it zooms a little to show the cat flush the toilet. It cuts back to the shower curtain moving, implying the person behind is moving quickly. It cuts to a new scene of the kitchen and a close up of some corned beef. It then cuts again to cat food being opened, and cuts again to the food being scraped into a bowl labelled ‘Garfield’. Cut again to a microwave timer just stopping and the cuts again to the man’s hand removing the corned beef from the microwave. A match in action occurs as the microwave is closed it cuts to the man closing the microwave with Garfield next to him.
This opening gives the idea that it is a comedy film and it shows that the main characters are the man and the cat. The mood of the film would be a light one.
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