It starts off in black and white with an establishing shot of an office building and a car pulling up outside, we are told it is in Prague. There is tense non-diagetic music in the background. The black and white effect gives the scene a cold dramatic effect and makes the audience fell as if something bad is going to happen. It then cuts to a low angle shot of a man getting out the car, this shows he has power, the next shot is the man in a lift he is looking at the numbers going up and they use a match on action shot to show this. There is then another low angle shot from behind a desk in an office, it then tracks past a chair and then there is a close up of the man who looks startled. There is then a voice from out of shot that triggers the man to turn round in shock as he turns round it cuts to a medium close up of the man talking in a chair. After this it cuts to another low angle shot of the other man, this is important because even though this other man has just broken in to his office he is still shown to have the power in the scene. The man then goes and sits behind his desk and slyly opens a draw containing a gun, this changes the mood of the scene and gives it a much darker feel. They then have a conversation and the man at the desk says that the other man has to have killed two people to have double-00 status, as he says this it flashes back to a fight scene in a bathroom in which the man kills an assailant. As soon as he has killed the man the scene flashes forward again to the man at the desk pulling the gun on the other man, the flashes are there to disorientate the audience and give a sense of confusion to the scene, but it still feels as if the man siting down at the desk has control of the scene. Next there is a medium close up of the man pointing the gun and him pulling the trigger but the gun doesn't go off and the man has a very surprised look on his face, as this happens it cuts to the man sitting down holding an ammunition clip in his hand and saying " I know where you keep your gun!". Now when the camera switches between shots of the two men they are at the same level showing that they now have equal power in the scene. The man at the desk then says (referring to the first man he killed) " you needn't worry the 2nd is.." as he says this the man sitting down pulls out a gun and shoot him, and then finishes his sentence by saying " yes considerably". The next shot is a flash back to the bathroom after the man has killed the assailant and you see him picking up his gun as he does this the man he Had supposedly killed gets up and tries to shoot him it then has an overlay of the classic Bond shooting sequence in which Bond fires the gun and blood runs down the screen, this is an important shot because it establishes this man as James Bond as this shot runs there is non-diagetic music as the soundtrack and it runs into the credits. The end scene is also important because the blood running down the screen is the first shot with colour in it which signifies the end of the opening.
This is a stunning cinematic experience which see's Bond return to his best.
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