I went to watch the most recent Bond film a couple of days ago and the opening was one that seemed to me to be pretty conventional of a Thriller and so I have decided to analyse it.
One of the key elements within the opening that atracted me was the vagueness and abstractness of the entire thing. A thriller opening likes to make use of a similar concept - images will be vague and almost always disorientating for the audience as it is like they're receiving parts of a jigsaw that do not yet quite fit.
There was also a lot of use of shadows and darkness which also adds to the disorientation effect and also helps to create a sense of mystery, while leaving questions within the mind of the audiences.
Moreover, as I watched the film in its entirety, I noticed how a lot of the images that had been displayed in the initial opening credits had been crucial to the plot in some way. For example, in the opening, there was a section wherein there were floating Chinese dragons. Later on in the film, the protagonist, Bond, is required to go to Shanghai where he goes to a Casino. It is here that the same Chinese dragons make an appearance. Little nuances like that are also used in Thriller openings, where a sense of foreshadowing and foreboding is created for the audience. These foreshadowing points are almost usually always addressed and possibly even resolved within the duration of the film.
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