The Bourne Identity Intro Analysis

The Bourne Identity

In the first shot of the film we can see a floating body in the sea from under the water; the body has a flashing light on it. It cuts away to an establishing shot where we can see a ship in the middle of the sea, its dark out so we know it’s nighttime. It’s raining and the lightning gives a quick flicker of light on the ship. There’s calm non-diegetic music playing in the background, which gradually gets louder and another instrument is introduced. It cuts away to the inside of the ship and there’s a high angle shot of four men playing cards around a small table, the room is small and cramped, everything in the room looks dark and dirty including the men’s clothing. The camera is moving around a bit to suggest the weather and the waves outside. The next shot is of the sea and in the bottom left corner words come up saying Mediterranean Sea 60 Miles South of Marseilles; there is a lot of ambient sound coming from the weather and the waves. It cuts back to the inside of the ship where the men are joking and laughing whilst playing cards, they are talking in a foreign language. We see the body floating in the water again from underneath and the camera gets closer towards it. Back on the ship we see a man wearing waterproof overalls walking out on the deck, he stops to put his hood up due to the weather. He empties a crate over the edge of the ship and sees the body floating in the water, the camera cuts away to underneath the body in the water even closer than before and the shot fades to the title The Bourne Identity. There’s an ellipsis as the men are now dragging the body onto the ship, the non-diegetic music is now fast paced and more instruments have been introduced. We the bodies face and now know it’s a man, he wearing some sort of under water swimming suit. The men chuck him on the floor and start talking about the man assuming he is dead, but the body moves so the quickly rush him down into the ship. They lay the body down on the table where they were previously playing cards, one of the men brings out some kind of toolbox and all the other men leave the room. The non-diegetic music calms and there’s an extreme close up of the man cutting open the washed up mans clothing; the man discovers he has several bullet wounds on his back. He begins removing the bullets with instruments from the toolbox and putting them in a small tin. He cuts open more of the mans clothing and finds a lump under his skin, he slices open the lump and pulls out a small metal object, there’s a close up of the object as the man runs it under a tap. The man looks at the object through a magnifying glass and makes a small red light shine through the glass into his eyes; he observes the red beam and shines it at the wall. It projects some words, letters and number on the wall. The man goes back to the table where the man was laying and he’s gone, all of a sudden the man who was laying on the table grabs him from behind and shouts “What the hell are you doing?”. He throws the startled man up against the wall and strangles him; he asks again what he’s doing. The fisherman explains that him and the rest of the crew found the man in the sea, he begins asking where he was and becomes weak. The fisherman leans him up against the table and asks what the metal object was doing under his skin; the man is confused and doesn’t seem to know what is going on. The fisherman asks him what his name is and he replies “I don’t know”, the man then passes out on the table.

Sin City Intro Analysis

Sin City
At the start of there is an establishing shot of a woman walking to the edge of a balcony, which over looks the city and there is ambient sounds coming from the city; the woman is wearing a dress. Everything in the shot is in black and white except for the woman’s dress, which is red. There’s a voice over narrating what the woman is doing. The shots cut to the front of the woman and there is a man walking up from behind her, the voice over narrates the man walking up behind the woman. The man is wearing a black suit and tie; he offers the woman a cigarette. The man’s voice is the same as voice over. She turns around and there is an over the over the shoulder shot as she takes the cigarette, we can see that the woman is wearing red lipstick but everything else is still in black and white. Shot reverse shot is used as the two characters have a conversation, the man looks happy to see the woman and they begin to act flirtatious to one another. There’s a close up of the woman’s face as the man lights her cigarette, he talks about the woman’s eyes and they turn green for a moment and then change back to black and white. The woman turns back around and looks down at the city, the camera starts to zoom up at the man standing behind the woman. The man starts talking about the woman running away and not being able to face something, the characters begin to act more serious as the camera zooms even closer. The woman turns around and looks at the man, the shot changes to long shot of the two characters, the characters kiss and are now two white silhouettes against the black and white city landscape. The shot changes back to normal and there’s a close up of the man hugging the woman, the voice over starts talking about the woman in detail such as the smell of her perfume. They kiss again and the voice over says, “I tell her I love her”. For an instant there is a quick white flash and a sharp shooting noise. The woman falls into his arms and his hand comes into the shot holding a pistol with a silencer. The shot cuts to a high angle shot of the man holding the woman on the floor in the rain, the voice over says “I hold her close until she’s gone, I’ll never know what she was running from”. The man looks up at the sky and then back down at the woman, the shot zooms out going into the sky. The camera goes out rotating around building until it’s looking down at the city. The buildings make out the words Sin City and slowly turn red, which contrasts with the black and white city.

Identity Intro Analysis

Identity

At the start of the film the Columbia Pictures credits comes up and there is a sound bridge of a man talking, the shot fades and words Columbia Pictures Presents show. The words disappear except for the letter I from pictures stays in the shot on its own, it cuts away to a close up of a tape playing with the name Malcolm Rivers. Another voice in the sound bridge says, “Where did you learn that? Where did you learn that poem” and the voice replies “I made it up, when I was a kid”. Someone presses a button on the tape recorder and a rewinding noise plays and there is a quick flash montage of images, including some documents, black and white mug shots of a bald man and a drawing of some stick figures with red around there necks which may suggest death. The voice over conversation continues and there is mysterious non-diegetic music being played by violins, there’s a close up of more stick figure drawings. In the next shot there’s a table with the tape recorder on it and a collection of drawings and cuts outs of people made with maps. Someone throws a file on the table with some documents, fingerprints and mug shots of a woman. The man in the voice angry and starts shouting “Don’t beat around the bush! Don’t beat around the bush Doc!”. This suggests that these conversations are going on between a doctor and a patient, possible the man in the black and white mug shots. The doctor’s voice says “Tell me what you remember about your mother?”. It quickly cuts to the mug shots of the woman holding a sign saying Rivers, C. The camera pans across the details of the woman in a file, the camera looks up at the man who has been listening to the recordings and looking over the documents. Next to the mans face, letters form the word Identity and the mysterious music plays again. There’s a close up of all the mug shots of the woman and the man in the voice over says, “I remember my mother was a whore”. The shot cuts away to the man looking at the table, there’s an eye line match and we see that the man is flicking through some newspaper articles. There’s a sharp noise as the camera zooms into a picture in the newspaper of a child in the back of a car, the picture isn’t very clear of who the child is. There’s another quick montage of the man looking through some documents in a file. The shot cuts away to see the man looking down at the files and he’s in some kind of office, there are certificates in photo frames up on the wall. We can hear ambient noise from the rain and lightning outside the window. The man looks over some news paper articles and there’s a close up of the headlines, one reads Mountain Nightmare, and another reads Mass Murder and says the name Malcolm Rivers underneath it. In the next shot we find out who Malcolm Rivers is as the camera cuts to the man holding a file with mug shots of the bald man from the start holding a sign saying M. Rivers. The doctors voice in the voice over says “Do you remember the murders?”. The shot cuts away to a picture of a woman lying on the floor covered in blood, it quickly cuts to the man holding another photo and in it is a man lying on the floor covered in blood. There’s a montage of the man going through more murder victims, documents on an autopsy of the stab wounds and newspaper articles. The man quickly drops the pictures on the table, the man presses a button on the tape recorder and a rewinding noise is played, at the same time there is a quick montage of all the documents the he’s looked through. The man looks down at the table and begins to write something, there’s a close up of the word evil. He begins drawing some kind of diagram, there’s another cut to a newspaper article, and another article reads Insanity Plead Denied. The doctor says in the voice over “Who am ii speaking to right now? What should I call you?”. The voice replies “Call me what ever you like”. The shot cuts to another article, which talks about someone being sent to death.