Smokin' aces opening sequence
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This summary describes the opening sequence of the 2007 film Smokin' Aces. The sequence establishes the genre through its use of black as a prominent color and iconography featuring cigarettes, gambling, and guns. It introduces the main characters engaging in typical criminal activities of smoking, gambling, and discussing crime at one of their gathering places, establishing them as characters fitting the film noir genre through their appearance and habits. The soundtrack contributes to the genre with its use of jazz music popular during the conventional time period for film noir in the 1950s.
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Smokin' aces opening sequence
- 1. This is the opening sequence of Smokin’ Aces, a film released in 2007. The colours used are typical of the genre with black being an important colour here. Some of the iconography here is also typical of the genre with cigarettes, gambling and guns having a pivotal role in the sequence. The narrative of the sequence is a group of men who are at one of their haunts doing the things you’d expect the main characters of a film to be doing – smoking, being involved in the crime and gambling – as mentioned before. Again the locations are typical because it is a social gathering where the people can do what they want as they seem to be able to do what they want. The characters as mentioned before meet the criteria of a film noir because of their habits and what they look like – in suits or oher smart clothing mostly. The sound we hear is a song that has a sort of jazz sound – a kind of music that was popular in the USA in the 50’s (Film Noir’s conventional time setting). There are two different songs that we hear but they do both fit this genre of music and therefore fit the genre of film that it is.<br />