Opening Sequences and Narrative Theories

Casino Royale

This opening sequence to the famous well know James bond movie casino royale follows the enigma code narrative. The way I know this is because at the start within the first few seconds an unknown man gets shot and killed by supposedly James bond which we know by using our foreknowledge about the previous movies. It follows the mystery path as we have no idea why James killed the man and we have no idea who the man is. This reels in the audience to keep watching to find out the story line and what happens in the movie and why the mysterious man was killed.

Saw IV

This opening sequence is defiantly the enigma code narrative but also a bit of the binary opposites. It shows the enigma code because there is a strange puppet character who we do not know. We also do not know how the people got there and we don’t know why they are there. This causes suspension and mystery within the movie. This makes the audience watch on because of the graphic nature and intensity of the movie they can’t move so they have to watch it. It’s also binary because of the people being called bad and so the puppet must be good but then also bad because he’s causing death.



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