No country for old men

 

 

The opening for no country for old men starts as still shots on landscapes. This is showing the audience that there is no one there. But there is s person speaking in the background telling a story. This is giving a sense of mystery as the audience doesn’t know where they are and what the story is about. There are no sounds apart from the sound of the man talking and sound of faint wind. This shows that there is not much going on. Make you want to know what’s going to happen next. The landscapes are extreme long shot; this shows where they are and what type of place they are at.( shot below)

In this frame there is two people and they are shadowed so you can’t see their faces. This shows that they don’t want you to know who they are at this point of time gives tension about not know who is who? The person who is telling a story stops and there is minimal talking at all. the shot is a point of view shot showing that they are getting into a police car, this shows that something has happened but we don’t know what. As they drive away in the police car, it shows the landscape that no one is about so how could someone get caught by the police? Shows how empty everywhere is.  Make the audience think that they must have just caught him doing something wrong because if they wasn’t there they would have never known as it’s so empty. Still you don’t know what’s happened and who is the hero or the villain.  (This does not have a screen shot)

The screen shot above clearly shows the differnces between the hero and the villian. The main focus is on the man holding the phone who seems to be sorting out where the man is going . at this point he is very vunrable, he dosent know what is going to happen next. But as you can see the man is the background is blurred and has a darker lighting this shows he is going to do something bad, and you still cant see what he looks like. Its still a mystary on what he looks like. He standing up which shows hes going to do something bad. This is a mid shot showing all the inportent bits to show the audience that he is vunrable and he is going to get hurt or killed by the man behind. (shot above)

 

In this frame it shows the attack on the police man. Show the struggle of the police man. He’s trying to get out, defend himself, but the amount of strength that he is putting in to killing this police man seems like he has done it before. He used what he had to kill him and that was hand cuffs. He made him struggle make the kill more painful. As you can see the lighting in the background is very dark making you focus on the people giving them more lightly. The is no sound people the sound of lost deep breath the sound of struggling. It switches camera action. It’s a low shot showing that they are on the floor.

 

Showing the face and the straight angle that give it more tension. This is a shot level shows all the action. Shows angry and tension between two people. Its shows more drama in this shot, because two people are fighting. This scene also shows that the police man is struggling for breath and is getting frustrated with this man because he is red in the face and his hand grip is very tight which shows more anger throughout this scene. They also tried to show more tension by this man’s facial expressions because by having emotion on their face it adds more tension and is more interesting to watch. So therefore draws the audience in. They stand out whilst there fighting as well which is very important as there are no distractions in the background of the scene making them the main attention and gives a better effect of angry emotions.

 

(Sink shot )

This shot is showing that the murderer of the police man is not fazed by his actions because he’s not in shock he’s just calmly washing his hands it also shows that he can just wash away his wrong doings this shows he doesn’t care and he’s very heartless towards other people, this could show that his background is bad like where he is from. It gives the idea to people that are watching it that he has done it before. He’s not bothered that the police man has hurt him because the police man isn’t alive anymore so he’s happy he’s gone. It also shows how much strength he had to use in this scene because of the cuts from the handcuffs. The show s darkness as there is very dim lighting this adds a better effect to his wrong doings and shows how bad he has acted. The shot is a bird’s eye view; it doesn’t show any facial emotions it’s just shows tension in his hands. It makes the audience look down on him as he has done something wrong the audience are more confused as to why he has killed the police man. It is like the man is playing a game that he can just end but it will always haunt him of what he has done.