The beginning sequence for no country for old men

The film begins with an establishing shot of a deserted view of a desert like area that does not have an abundance of vegetation; this is to show that possibly that it is a peaceful place, where they are not over used to witnesing of being invlovled in crime. While on this view you can hear a radio show about a murder, which makes the audience think this place is possible not as peaceful as it first seemed.

After this scene it cuts to a a mid shot of a car beginning pulled over by a cop car and put in custody, this guy seems very shady, while the police officer looks quite confident. Next it cuts to a shot whch is of the police officer having a phone call. This man is custody who looks like a bit of a psychopath (which leas the audience to believe that he is the villain of the movie), steps up and walks very slowly to the police officer, puts his cuffs around the police officer throat and starts to throttle him, the camera flashes to those to on the floor and shows both the factual reaction of both men while this is happening, the shots move the audience because it shows the police officer has little chance and his fight for survival is in vien. After the police officer his dead on the floor, they us a point of view shot of the psycho washing his hands to get rid of the blood.

The person then takes over the police car and pulls over another man, ask him to get out of the car and puts some sort of device, that had been introduced to us, to the mans head it then shots off some sort of surprised air puts a whole in the mans head and kills him, while the psycho goes off into the car of the man he has just killed car and drives away.

The next shot is of a a sniper scope zoomed on to a dear, the camera then suddenly cuts the face of the man who is actually aiming the gun, the sniper shot is an example of a point of view shot, because of this the audience do not yet know whether this guy is a good guy or a bad guy.
This shot is effective because it shows it shows us the concentration of him, after shooting the bullet you hear the sound of the shell hitting the floor, this is effective because it makes the audience very aware of his surrounding, because the only over things that the audience can hear is his breath and the wind this is all digetic sound and adds a sense of realism.

The target audince for our short coming opening sequence would greatly appriciate some of the camera shots in this opening sequence such as the perspective shot which i have just talked about.

That was the opening of No Country for Old Men, analysis of the rest of the movie is for another time…..