Movie Openings 1

One of my favourite directors of all time is Quentin Tarantino, mainly for the fact he has such a unique and distinctive style as a director that is genuinely lost in most modern cinema blockbusters (though this is mainly down to editor Sally menke who died after completing inglourious basterds). Anyways Kill Bill vol. 1 has to be one of my favourite films of all time and has one of the most memorable openings.

Sorry that that clip is in french but it was the only one i found with the full credits. Heres the dialogue in english if your interested, which you should be because it's awesome.

Mr Halleday: ''why don't you open with a quote''. I never did it in english, but i like the way Tarentino uses it to immediately establish the premise, tone and and general plot of the film. The following few credits with the sound of the unseen bride breathing are also really powerful and whatever the technical term for that if there is one, i like it. Other things I like about this scene + credits:

• The Lighting that highlights one side of the bride's face and wounds, while leaving the other half in shadow, suggest there is more to the bride than what seems to be right now the damsel in distress (the black and white further highlights this effect)
• While the camera focuses on the bride the sound of approaching footsteps out of shot and then cutting to the boots
• Tarantino introducing the second main character of bill by showing the handkerchief with his name on simultaneously during his monologue, slightly like incorporated captions
• The Bride's really out of the blue revelation about the baby and then the abrupt shot to the head neatly ends this sort of prologue while causing the audience's interest to escalate
• Nancy Sinatra's song is so unbelievable appropriate here