Recently I watched 'The Assassination of Jesse James' and absolutely loved it! Most of of all i loved the introduction to the film, I thought the cinematography, editing and souns was outstanding and created an incredible opening to a film.
The use of time lapses of landscapes and setting shots throughout the opening alongside the chiming music created a dream like scene, which also accompanied the dream like vision in many of the shots as there was a blurred edged frame. It seemed as though it was shot out of a pinhole like or fisheye view camera. Also, the constant contrast between the light and dark palette throughout the opening, especially in the last shot emphasises the mystery of Jesse James (Brad Pitt). I'm usually not fond of dialogue over the top of shots in movies and felt it was something that was not needed in our 2 minute openings. However, I felt the mixture of the mans voice and the actual words spoken in this film really finished off the opening to 'The Assassination of Jesse James'. Overall, this is definitely one of the most brilliant openings to a film i have seen.
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