Game Of Death is a 1978 Martial Arts-Thriller film starring Bruce Lee. The film was finished several years after Bruce Lee’s death in 1973, and the title sequence at the beginning portrays scenes from some of Bruce’s older films in his memory. A medium shot is first used at the very beginning of the sequence to show Bruce Lee in action during one of his older films, this shot is used to show the audience who the film is revolved around and how good Bruce Lee is.
When the main cast are shown during the sequence close ups are used to show the audience who in the film they are. The colour of the background when a clip is not being shown is very black to portray mystery and possibly death, as Bruce Lee died years before the films release. The colour red is used when Bruce Lee’s body is faded in at the start of the clip also to convey death as mentioned before. The diegetic sounds are the grunts and kicks from Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in their fight at the end of the sequence, along with the sound of the nunchucks that Bruce Lee makes at the beginning.. The non-diegetic sounds are the music (Game Of Death Theme) all the way through the clip, and the huge grunt from Bruce Lee at the start. There is also an extreme close up of Bruce Lee’s eyes in the sequence to show that he is possibly scheming.
Games such as darts and poker are being shown throughout the clip to presumably work with the name of the movie. The pacing is fairly slow until the fight scene at the end of the sequence which helps build suspence and tension during that clip. The font of Bruce Lee is very bold and stood out compared to the font in the rest of the clip to show his power and preseance in the movie. When the name of the villain in the movie is shown, it is in bright red to give away the fact that he is bad in the movie, as red indicates death, blood or danger.
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film starring Clint Eastwood. There are many technical codes in the movie which I will now go into detail with. The only movements in the clip are animated ones of a cowboy and the rest are still pictures of mainly of characters involved in the film. Close ups of the film’s main characters are shown when their names are displayed to give the audience a picture of who they are. There are also long shots of scenery and a train along with one of a bridge, these are enigmas as it gets the audience to think how the train and bridge are involved in the film.
The colour red is being used a lot of a simple reasons, Westerns means guns which means shots which ultimately means blood. There is a lot of shooting and deaths in Western films and as The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is regarded as one of the best of all time, it is going to have shooting and gun fights in it. The font is done in the same format as all of the three in the “Dollars Trilogy” by Sergio Leone are done, it is fairly scruffy and when certain names come up they come up in the same way during the title sequence of all three movies.
There is no diegetic in the entire sequence. There is however non-diegetic sound in the theme of the movie and the whistling, these also with the constant gunshots during the sequence. With the gunshots constantly firing and the whistling also happening it helps give the impression that possibly the main character in the film doesn’t seem scared or worried by guns and shooting in the movie. The pace of the shots is often quite quick to correspond with the gunshots occurring at the same time as the music. The setting is in a desert which is typical of a Western. The posture of the characters when they are shown are neutral which possibly shows they are professionals due to the situation of the gunshots and they are acting natural.
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