Directors: Frank Miller and Robert Rodingnez, 2005
Opening Shots/Mise-en-scene/Shot stpyes: establishing shot, urban city setting, seductive woman with red low backed dress. Two person shot, slow jazz music (film noir) non diegetic sirens and city noises. Birds eye view. Car view camera shot exactly like in Chinatown and vertigo. Chiaroscuro lighting. Woman looked in the camera zooms out whilst panning and goes in a spiral (thriller signifier) twists occurring.
Opening credits: explosion, city, font of credits look almost cartoony or as if written for a comic book – white outlines. Red writing, balck and white background. Images behind the text like guns, people (possible characters) stills that move across the screen, all drawn as comic books are. Film is based on drank miller’s graphic novel so use od the graphic images is almost a reminder of his book, influenced the film.
Mise-en-scene: raining/slashed streets, classic thriller signifier. Wet lashed streets and balcony with smoke. Bleak atmosphere, woman is vulnerable but sexy and possible dangerous. Eyes flash green sugguesting emotion (jealousy?) man seems protective. Monochromatic black and white flash of the scene when they kiss, more reminder of the graphic novel.
Editing: black and white, red dress and gren eyes only colour, slow paced shot editing, showing contrasts, and monochromatic flash.
Narrative perspective: voice over of the man, internal monologue.
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