Casino Royale film opening

The beginning of this film is shown before the opening credits to give you a background story to the rest of the film and explains the important history of James Bond and how he gained his 007 status. To gain this status he needed to kill two people.

The scene at the beginning shows Bond's lead up to his second kill and then uses flash backs to show his first killing. The whole of this beginning scene is in black and white to show that it is in the past and then everything from after the opening credits is in colour to show it is the present day.

The location is set straight away by the bit of text in the corner of the screen telling you where they are. There is no speech in the flash backs where James Bond is killing his first person, just background music which builds suspence with the viewer as they watch what the know is about to come.

At the very beginning of the scene the viewer can tell it is an eery atmosphere as when the man steps out of the car he looks around him before proceeding into the building. The first person you hear talk in the film is the main character James Bond and as he has the conversation in the office the camera work makes it look very shady and mysterious as Bond emerges from the shadows and the whole office is very dark, which adds to the tense atmosphere.