opening to quantum of solace

The start of the opening scene is a establishing, long shot of a mountain covered in green with an idealistic beach along side it. The scene then completely changes as the this near paradise is cut to a dark tunnel with flashes of a car which is synonymous with the film franchise of James Bond, the music which is playing the whole time does have a dark undertone which sets the scene as the camera then cuts to a series of shots that fade in and out of shot is a close up of a man and then of the same guy carrying a gun which completely changes the complexion of the scene as it has gone from this view of a man driving across a idealistic background to a dangerous situation. There is then a sweeping camera shot of the first shot zooming closer into the mountain to reveal a road, the fading shots continue with more shots of the cars and then an extreme close up of somebody new into the scene showing the persons focus and control in the scene. The music then suddenly stops and one of the cars starts to speed of using shot reverse shot to establish that the character has put their foot down. After the character speeds up, in the light, revealing their car to be an Aston Martin, this tells us that this is James bond as it is a main stereotype of these films and this character is synonymous with that car. As he speeds away the other characters we see begin to shot at the character's car. This film is a film is an action film and this is highlighted with this scene as this takes two of the most stereotypical parts of action films; car chases and gun fights. As the car chase continues the film keeps using shot reverse shot to emphasis that James Bond is in trouble. Another stereotype of this film franchise is that the main protagonist, James Bond, is able to get out of very difficult situation and this is shown as a large truck is caught in the cross fire and it requires James Bond to do what only he can do and get out which he does with more use of shot reverse shot between him and either the road or the truck driver which later sees him get through this situation. Another thing seen in action films is when the protagonist  is being chased there is a lot of damage and death, the first time we see death in this scene is when a large dumper truck goes into one of the cars following James Bond's car. This then cuts to a policemen speaking a foreign language with subtitles looking at the cars as they drive past on a ridge further away, the was they show this is with an over the shoulder shot. in the scene the police then decide to get involved, there is a few more high speed shots of the cars driving past keeping the car chase going. The police are then cut too driving either behind or to the other cars, we cannot tell because it is a medium pan of the car. It then cuts to a shot from behind the police car to see the Aston Martin is coming straight at it, Then showing the coolness of James Bonds face we see the car he is driving very skill fully avoid the police car then continue down into a quarry using a long shot to establish they have changed what type of road they are driving on. The car chase continues around winding roads, the camera then cuts to the police car which has started following the other cars and one of the police men pulls out a gun and it then cuts back to the people chasing James Bond and the one with the gun shoots at the police car and this then causes the car to crash and as a part of being an action film it doesn't usually just stop their it then tumbles down the hill just going past the main protagonist's (James Bond) car. there is then shots coming through the car and then it cuts to the driver of the Alfa Romeo they begin to ram and shoot at James Bond again and we then cut to James Bond in the car reaching for something, they come around a corner and there is a vehicle in the road and as the man with a gun starts to aim again at James Bond he then pulls out and picks up a gun and with a massive amount of calm composure and shoots the driver of the other which then causes the car to go over the cliff. Then we see James Bond's car slowly go into a town which is then revealed to be Siena, Italy with a pan to look overt the town and titles telling us where he is. We then see the car drive into a tunnel and the music changes to a more upbeat version of the original James Bond tune, then very calmly James gets out of his car opening the boot of it reveal a man sitting in it and then humor is added by James saying "time to get out" there is then a cut to the opening credits