This document provides an analysis of the opening title sequence of the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill". The sequence features women depicted in suggestive and dangerous ways, along with guns, flames, explosions and stunts, all set to the title song by Duran Duran. These visuals are meant to convey the violence and intrigue of the film's plot, which involves Bond investigating an industrialist's plans to destroy Silicon Valley. Specific shots analyzed include a woman unzipping her coat to reveal a bulletproof vest saying "007", lasers shooting the title cards, a woman lit in orange, an ice sculpture melting to reveal fire, and optical illusions of a woman during an explosion.

1. A view to a kill
1985
Done By Ryan Parsons

2. Plot of A view to a kill
The story follows James Bond 007 (Roger Moore)
investigate a scam involving horse racing leads to
an industrialist called Max Zorin (Christopher
Walken) who’s plan is to destroy silicon valley
which is located in California to create a
worldwide microchip monopoly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/

3. Analysis of the opening sequence
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The opening sequence to the film with the titles of the film.
In the title sequence there is a pan shot of a
woman who unzips her coat. The camera stops
when the shot is at chest height. The T- shirt
reveals red writing with 007. This foreshadows
the violence of what is to come later on in the
film. The text above and below the red writing
appears in capital letters
The Theme is titled “A View to a Kill” was written by Duran Duran and
John Barry, The song was recorded in London with a 60-piece orchestra.
The song resembles what is shown in the sequence with the figures
dancing in the fire. The lyrics are “Dance in to the fire”. This song hit
number one in the charts.

4. The camera focuses on a gun which
appears from the left side of the screen.
The lasers were added afterward by
editing and as the laser shoots twice the
words “A VIEW” appears which is followed
by “TO A KILL” fading on to the screen
after. This is followed by a woman
appearing on the screen from the bottom
of the screen. With this there is a mid shot
of the woman when she turns around and
the light showing the woman darkens.

5. After the sequence with the gun
the screen goes dark and we only
see the glow in the dark lipstick
that the woman is wearing and we
see a point of view shot through a
scope of a weapon on the right
side of the screen while the
camera pans down showing the
woman in the shot. The text is
fading in when all in capital
letters.

6. The next part of the sequence there is a close
up shot of a woman who is lighted in orange
symbolising that she is the flame of rebellion.
The rest of the screen is in darkness. The
camera remains in the same position
throughout this part of the sequence and the
text appears on screen for 3 seconds.
As the sequence goes in to brief darkness there is a
flame at the bottom of the screen. This is followed by
an explosion which would have been added in the
editing. This is followed by Roger Moore's character
appearing with a vertical tracking shot of the character
shooting a weapon.
This is followed by a drawn in effect of 10 circles increasing
in size each time which then the inner circle reveals the
next part of the sequence

7. This part of the sequence shows a woman skier
with her cloths and make up only being lighten
by glow in the dark equipment. The rest of the
body is in darkness which could symbolise the
mystery of the film. The titles are fading in to
the shot and fading out after a few seconds.
The blue figure which runs in from the left of
the screen would have been shot as a real
person but edited by colouring in the
individual shots. The drawn shot included
shoots the woman skier and is turned to ice.
When this has happened the camera zooms in very
quickly to the face of the ice sculpture. The camera then
stops at the eye and the sculpture fades out to reveal a
hill

8. Here is a long shot of a hill. The figures come from
the left side of the screen. In the first part of this
sequence we see several figures skiing whist one
person goes past the camera.
Later in the sequence these figures
begin to perform stunts. This is shown in
slow motion and then resumes at a
normal speed after the stunt.

9. This next part sees the ice figure again. The camera
starts with a extreme close up but zooms out. When
zooming out we see that there are flames melting the
figure. This could symbolise that there will be death in
this film of an important figure.
The icy figure then fades and a woman who is wearing an orange
mask which is symbolising fire appears in the same place as the icy
figure. The woman then begins to move backwards and forwards

10. The shot then shows an explosion
and a woman but on both sides,
like an optical illusion during the
explosion and soon after.
In the final part of the sequence the woman is
shown more clearly. The technique which was used
was two individual shots were done but then
joined together in the final edit to give the illusion.
The picture will then fade to show London.