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| Lord of War film poster |
Lord of War is a drama/thriller film, starring Nicolas Cage, directed by Andrew Niccol. Unfortunately I have not watched this film, so I am not able to inform you about the narrative, but I have watched the opening sequence and my personal opinion is that it is one of the best I have ever seen. The camera pans and tilts down, giving us a high angle shot of a warehouse. Men are shown working and moving heavy loads around. The opening titles are in thin, white capital letters. The use of non-diegetic music is quite folk rock and is well suited to the opening sequence. We are then taken into a industrial machine and follow a bullet and see how it is manufactured and packaged. When it is being packaged in a box, the cover is put on, which blacks out the scene and slowly, slowly gets opened up first by a solider then by a few men. With the object being a bullet it is obvious that the genre is a thriller and action film. The bullet it finally loaded into a gun, this shot is fascinating because it closely shows you how a gun works and what it looks like from within and how a tiny object can end a life, as we next see it being shot into the little boys head.
The idea of an opening sequence following an object fascinates and amazes me, because it is something, which is rarely done in film-making. It was an outstanding opening sequence.
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