If you've read Romeo and Juliet, then you know that Shakespeare outlines the story in the prologue. Before the first scene even starts, you know the play is about two star-crossed lovers who die. Skyfall does something similar in its opening credits.
Spoilers for the movie below. Here's a video of the opening credits, for reference.
The opening titles give the audience a glimpse of what's coming in the movie, including plot points, locations, and themes.
Here a few examples, and you could analyze and dissect the opening titles to even greater detail.
Time - Image in opening credits - Connection to story
0:30 - Bond continues sinking in the water - Bond presumably drowns and MI6 pronounces him dead
1:00 - Fallen knives and guns form cemetery gravestones - The death of "the old ways" in espionage
1:15 - Zoom in on Bond's eye - Bond returns to London
1:31 - Shooting the shadows - Bond's tests before returning to fieldwork, M's idea about "working in the shadows"
2:18 - Dragon dance - Shanghai
2:47 - Black skull - The black skull image that flashed on M's hacked computer
2:50 - Cemetery - Exposed MI6 agents who were assassinated, the graves of Bond's parents at Skyfall estate
2:52 - Fall into a grave and then Bond is walking on the ground - Bond's "resurrection"
3:05 - Shooting at mirrors - Scene in the Shanghai skyscraper, mirrors in Skyfall house to distract Silva's men
3:21 - Blood stain on Bond's suit jacket - M lets Bond go back into the field even though he didn't pass the tests (he's a damaged/injured agent)
3:28 - Blood and fire falling over a large house - The final fight at the Skyfall estate where most of Silva's men die, M dies, and the house blows up
The opening titles do not obviously tell you what is going to happen in the story, but the imagery gives you a general sense of what's coming. I noticed how connected the opening credits were only after I finished watching the movie.
Spoilers for the movie below. Here's a video of the opening credits, for reference.
The opening titles give the audience a glimpse of what's coming in the movie, including plot points, locations, and themes.
Here a few examples, and you could analyze and dissect the opening titles to even greater detail.
Time - Image in opening credits - Connection to story
0:30 - Bond continues sinking in the water - Bond presumably drowns and MI6 pronounces him dead
1:00 - Fallen knives and guns form cemetery gravestones - The death of "the old ways" in espionage
1:15 - Zoom in on Bond's eye - Bond returns to London
1:31 - Shooting the shadows - Bond's tests before returning to fieldwork, M's idea about "working in the shadows"
2:18 - Dragon dance - Shanghai
2:47 - Black skull - The black skull image that flashed on M's hacked computer
2:50 - Cemetery - Exposed MI6 agents who were assassinated, the graves of Bond's parents at Skyfall estate
2:52 - Fall into a grave and then Bond is walking on the ground - Bond's "resurrection"
3:05 - Shooting at mirrors - Scene in the Shanghai skyscraper, mirrors in Skyfall house to distract Silva's men
3:21 - Blood stain on Bond's suit jacket - M lets Bond go back into the field even though he didn't pass the tests (he's a damaged/injured agent)
3:28 - Blood and fire falling over a large house - The final fight at the Skyfall estate where most of Silva's men die, M dies, and the house blows up
The opening titles do not obviously tell you what is going to happen in the story, but the imagery gives you a general sense of what's coming. I noticed how connected the opening credits were only after I finished watching the movie.
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