Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The films title is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The title appeared in canon order at 21 seconds. The onomatopoeia of "Bang Bang" gives connotations of guns and weapons, a feature that is common in a crime thriller. The "Bang Bang" also contrasts with the romantic "Kiss Kiss" as this portrays two different emotions of romance and violence for the audience. "Kiss Kiss" could also represent a main female character that is involved with crime activities. The film title could represent the timeline of love as as the beginning, the relationship could be kisses, then towards the end the relationship ends with violence. The film title is quite apparent towards the genre of the film, making the narrative seem quite predictable.
The theme tune starts at the beginning of the opening scene and lasts right through to the end. The upbeat soft music gives connotations of undercover detective work with a raunchy twist. This make the audience feel theres a mystery and suspicion in the crime thriller. The theme tune relates to the title of the thriller as both portray violence and criminal attributes and together they combine to complete the genre of a stereotypical crime thriller.
Within 4 seconds of the opening sequence, the location jumps out at the audience as being modern city life. This could reflect the realism of the crime as robbery is common in major cities and town. The location represents the urban life in todays world, as the audience see animations of barbed wires and mansion houses. This corresponds with the main theme of the thriller as the period is set for today.
The first introduction to a character is 00.08 seconds where the audience see an animated figure jumping over a tall barbed wired gate. This insinuates that the character is up to no good. As the animated figure runs out of the camera frame, a females facial features appears at the top left corner looking over at him. Although, the facial features of the female are animated, the audience quickly grasp that she is female due to her perfect shaped eyebrows and long eyelashes. The way the female looks over towards the direction that the male figure was running in, illustrates she is superior then the male. This is very counter typical as women tend not to be associated with crime. This makes the audience feel, that the female is involved with the criminal activities. The third introduction to many characters is at 00.51 when the audience see the animated characters suited and booted clutching a glass of wine. This portrays their criminal rewards have been spend on fine dining and partying. After the socialising, the scene alternates to many animated characters gathering in a small closed balcony where one female character is pushed of. The audience see the female character fall under the moonlight. This insinuates some sort of death in the crime, a feature that is also common in crime thriller. This gives the audience a hint within the narrative that one female character will either die or be injured. It turns out their is murdering, as one character shoots and kills the female out of anger.
The opening scene creates all sorts of enigmas for the public. The audience are keen to work out why a gun shots out animated flowers and leaves. This goes with the title of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as the irony of the violent and dangerous prop of a gun is shooting out nature. Again, the contrast between the splatter of red blood and then red kiss mark, is ironic towards the title of the film. The contrast between love and crime, is very stereotypical as in crime thrillers there normally contains a crime being committed for the loved one.
The audience notice small details of cast and crew in the opening scene. The animated ladies are wearing tight expensive dresses and the male characters are wearing expensive black suits. This makes the audience feel that the characters are upperclass. This is very stereotypical to have upperclass characters involved with crime.
The sub genre conventions.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang uses four micro areas throughout the opening sequence, these being, camera work, editing, sound and miss-en-scene.
Camera work: There was a zoom out on the black gun making the gun the main focus of the frame. This portrays that the gun could be an important prop towards the film. There is also match on action of the girl getting pushed of the balcony and falling. This could insinuate that a character dies in the film or is seriously injured. There is a pan movement of the two houses and telephone wires which indicates the polluted city life.
Sound: Music fades in at 00.02 seconds and played until the end. The music is upbeat and secretive which relates to the plot of the robbery. The music is continued throughout the whole clip as the audience become familiar with the narrative.
Mise-en-scene: The setting is in a highway city life atmosphere which fits the plot as crime rates in the city are normally high. The setting informed the viewers that the film is based in the city centre. Certain props were used such as guns to fit the genre of the film. The colour was pink on some scenes which gives connotations with females. However, the colour was low-key black when there was men appearing on the scene. This distinguishes the male characters from the female characters as being up to mischief.
Editing: There was a straight cut between the long shot of the mansion house to inside the party where characters were socialising. This gives an insight to the rich criminal life that the characters live. There is short shot duration on the females facial features which could portray how secretive and manipulative the character is in the film, as she is constantly watching over and dominating the male characters.
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