Analysis of Catch Me If You Can opening sequence

This is my second opening sequence analysis and will help me form an idea of different genre opening sequences to enhance my own knowledge and better the result of my film opening sequence.

Genre

The genre is very obvious through out this clip. The car chase, and the disguises shown through out the opening sequence has strong connotations of an action genre. This is backed up by the film title "catch me if you can" suggesting a very action based movie.

Narrative

The audience can definitely tell whats going to happen in the movie from the opening sequence. The opening sequence starts off with a scene that looks like an airport suggesting someone is getting off a plane and the man behind the line wall suggests that he is watching the plane landing. The clip then goes on to show a chase suggesting a the movie will have a lot of chase scenes. One of the disguises used is a doctors outfit connoting a scene being based in a hospital. The scenery then changes to a office stetting connoting an office scene. The end scene shows the man finally catching up with the other man suggesting an end fighting scene.

Character

The opening scene focuses on two main male characters suggesting the film has two main male characters. one being good and one being bad. The fact that the male being chased disguises as a doctor has connotations of him being the good guy but this is not made clear. The frequent appearances of females suggest the film will have a lot of females but with very small roles.

Themes

With the chase scenes and the amount of females in the opening sequence we can deduce that the main themes in the movie will be spy's, mystery, woman, disguises and chase.

Setting

From the yellow cab shown in my first screenshot we can deduce that the film will be based in America, yellow cabs being symbolic of retro American lifestyle. The opening sequence has connotations of many different settings including hospitals, offices and hotels.

Sound

The sound is very tense and old styled suggesting the film is based around the 1950s. The non-diagetic sound used has a very mysterious feel suggesting the film will be very mysterious.

Titles

The titles are done in a beautiful clever way. They are integrated into the film opening sequence perfectly. There is a very varied placement of titles. The titles flow together very well. The audience can also tell which actors are playing which characters for example in the screenshot bellow Tom Hanks name is shown with an arrow pointing to the character sitting down suggesting that he will be playing that character.

Evaluation This opening sequence was cleverly made and showed the story through animation. This made the film opening sequence flow very well and looked very good. The Titles were very well integrated.
This opening sequence had a lot about the story of the film in. I have never watched the movie but I can deduce some of the main themes of the film from the opening sequence.

This Opening sequence has a lot of features I would like to include our opening sequence, the main one being integrated titles due to how clever and professional the opening sequence looked due to the titles.

You can find the opening sequence of Catch Me if You Can below