Skyfall opening titles

Skyfall is the 23rd film in the James Bond series and stars Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem. Skyfall is an action/thriller which sees our beloved spy James Bond return to duty after a botched mission. Rugged, tired and not the usual Bond we are used to seeing on our screens, he must go on a mission to stop Silva (Javier Bardem) and protect the exposed identities of MI6 agents. But Silva has a personal vendetta that involves someone at the top of MI6 and will stop at nothing to kill them. The Bond films are infamous for their opening sequences and Skyfall is no different although this one may be particularly remembered for its soundtrack performed by Adele. The opening titles start with Bond being dragged into a deep, dark sea with a bleeding wound creating swirls of blood that float behind him. The blue of the water makes the blood stand out even more and it foreshadows the elements of danger that Bond will face throughout the film. He is dragged into a hole in the ground were the audience is flown through a graveyard where the gravestones are guns and bayonets. The blue transforms into a red swirl which just spells out death and suggests that our protagonist has fallen already. After escaping from the graveyard we see Bond standing in a large hall shooting shadows of himself. This shows the paranoia that may be starting to settle into his mind. Black, white and grey colours present the idea of blurred lines and a mistrust between people; the game is no longer good or bad and it has merged to challenge our hero to figure out the problem by himself. These titles are similar to the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang titles as they both present/foreshadow the same conventions of a action/thriller by using similar methods, however the James Bond titles would be much harder to try and create opposed to the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang titles.