1.Preparation

a) Reason for selection

- The opening scene of the movie 'Casino Royale' started with the gun shooting from a main character whose name is James Bond. Most of the scenes are related with the casino showing the figures that we could easily find in Casino like the shape of heart and diamond in the Casino card. This movie is about James Bond who is on a mission that, if successful, will qualify him for double-0 status. He goes to Prague and kills an MI6 section chief. The genre of movie is action which makes the first opening scene start with gun shooting and blooding on the screen. This helps to develop the feeling of curious and excitement. In the opening scene, I can find different shapes of barrel of a gun which is the tube through which the bullet moves when the gun is fired. I can find also bloods from the dead people and it helps to add more realistic. The opening scene is fit into the film by showing a lot of figures that we could find in real Casino and the blood from people. Moreover, the actions like fighting and gun shooting are really related with the film as a whole. This opening scene appeals to me because I like all the way how director made this opening scene. It’s really interesting for me and makes me feel involved with the movie. This opening scene also made me feel really wants to watch the movie.




b) Genre/ Atmosphere.


-The tone of the opening scene is very colorful as it includes a lot of colors and little bit somber as most of the colors don’t really fluoresce. For me, the tone is old as a whole. The whole tone of the opening scene appears me like watching an old popular movie. I think the opening scene is not really modern. The toilet that shown in the first of the opening scene was very old and not clean as well. The texture of the blood that we can see in the very first part of the scene is dark, thick and heavy.  The opening scene created specific techniques that are related with Casino. Every each scene is showing the idea of the movie which is a mission of James Bond. The people in the scene were fighting each other, blooding, and gun shooting. I believed that every symbols, figures and pictures shown in the scene came from the story of the movie which makes me guess how the story of movie is going on later. I could find a lot of figures like many shapes that we could see when people are doing poker game , the roulette and any other casino games.

   

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