Director- Christopher Nolan
Starring- Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Anne Hathaway.
Opening Sequence
The film begins with the titles; the Warner Bros, DC comics, and Regency logo. These logo have a dark colour scheme, showing the dark mood of the movie. They are also of a metallic texture, representing the industry that Gotham City is built from.
We then see a slow zoom as ice breaks into the shape of the Bat-Symbol, this shows how Batman is reemerging from his metaphorical 'cryo-sleep' in which Bruce Wayne gave up on being Batman.
We then hear Commissioner Gordon speaking, there is a sound bridge as the video appears to show the commissioner in front a picture of Harvey Dent (a character who met his demise at the end of the last film), the scene then fades to black, suggesting a passage of time.
We then see a CIA agent from a low angle shot (suggesting the agent's power). The agent is wearing casual clothes and combat trousers while the soldiers around him are fully uniformed, this shows he is ranked higher than them. We then see some prisoners in a car, these prisoners have bags on their heads, much like how captured terrorists are seen today. Incidental music builds in he background, as does the suspense. There is talk of a "masked man", who the agent calls Bane, with only a name, the audience is kept in the dark of the mystery character.
After this we see an aerial shot of the plane to establish a new scene's location, the CIA agent seems to want to find out about Bane rather urgently, as the prisoners are told to be his henchmen, he pretends to kill one of them, to scare the other prisoners, yet one of the prisoners speaks out and questions it, the voice has been heavily edited so you can tell that it is Bane. Bane realising that the other prisoner has not been killed shows that he is intelligent. The camera then tracks forward into Bane's back, ready to reveal him. The agent questions him and Bane refers to himself as "We", showing that he speaks for all of his people. The next shot shows a low angle show as Bane's face is revealed, mask and all, then a high angle shot showing the agent's reaction, this shows how Bane has taken the agent's dominance, and made him submissive. We then cut to an extreme long shot, reestablishing the place, as another plane approaches.
Dramatic music starts as the as the action begins, there is a lot of quick editing to emphasize the speed and urgency, we see Bane do a blood transfusion which, again, shows his brains as well as his brawn. As Bane tells one of his henchmen to stay behind and sacrifice themselves, we learn that he has a cult-like leadership over his people, they obey him utterly. The starting sequence then ends, with a cut to the Gotham skyline.
We then see a slow zoom as ice breaks into the shape of the Bat-Symbol, this shows how Batman is reemerging from his metaphorical 'cryo-sleep' in which Bruce Wayne gave up on being Batman.
We then hear Commissioner Gordon speaking, there is a sound bridge as the video appears to show the commissioner in front a picture of Harvey Dent (a character who met his demise at the end of the last film), the scene then fades to black, suggesting a passage of time.
We then see a CIA agent from a low angle shot (suggesting the agent's power). The agent is wearing casual clothes and combat trousers while the soldiers around him are fully uniformed, this shows he is ranked higher than them. We then see some prisoners in a car, these prisoners have bags on their heads, much like how captured terrorists are seen today. Incidental music builds in he background, as does the suspense. There is talk of a "masked man", who the agent calls Bane, with only a name, the audience is kept in the dark of the mystery character.
After this we see an aerial shot of the plane to establish a new scene's location, the CIA agent seems to want to find out about Bane rather urgently, as the prisoners are told to be his henchmen, he pretends to kill one of them, to scare the other prisoners, yet one of the prisoners speaks out and questions it, the voice has been heavily edited so you can tell that it is Bane. Bane realising that the other prisoner has not been killed shows that he is intelligent. The camera then tracks forward into Bane's back, ready to reveal him. The agent questions him and Bane refers to himself as "We", showing that he speaks for all of his people. The next shot shows a low angle show as Bane's face is revealed, mask and all, then a high angle shot showing the agent's reaction, this shows how Bane has taken the agent's dominance, and made him submissive. We then cut to an extreme long shot, reestablishing the place, as another plane approaches.Dramatic music starts as the as the action begins, there is a lot of quick editing to emphasize the speed and urgency, we see Bane do a blood transfusion which, again, shows his brains as well as his brawn. As Bane tells one of his henchmen to stay behind and sacrifice themselves, we learn that he has a cult-like leadership over his people, they obey him utterly. The starting sequence then ends, with a cut to the Gotham skyline.
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