Textual analyis of Assassins

The Warner brother’s logo appears

A Church bell starts ringing

Title fades to ‘Warner Bros. Presents’ from black and then fades back to black.

‘ASSASSINS’ fades on screen from black in red writing.

The title then turns into black and white

What sounds like a small child starts to sing with an echoing voice

The sun is the main focus of the next clip, with clouds moving over it.

This then fades through to a clock at 10 o’clock

Fades through to two security guards opening a gate and a door for a man in a white suit.

Which cuts to feet running up the stairs, the trousers are white therefore it is the man who just entered through the door

Again it fades through to another clock, this time saying 3:10

Which fades through to a silenced pistol being put down, the camera pans to see bullets being put down as well. The camera fades again to the sun.

This then fades though to doors being opened again by a security guard letting a man in wearing a grey suit carrying a large suitcase, he then walks underneath the camera giving us a birds eye view of him.

The camera then cuts to a sniper rifle being assembled.

Which quickly cuts back to a hand touching some money, the camera pans up to see the both men in suits? The man in the white suit then signs something, which the camera focuses on.

The camera cuts back to the bullets on that were put down, and a hand taking a bullet out, the hands then put the bullet into the sniper rifle, and the sound of the bullet being put in is echoed.

The camera cuts to the man in the white suit running down the stairs with the suitcase

Cuts to the sniper rifle being held up to a face.

And then cuts to doors being opened by guards again, and the suited men exit through the doors

Camera cuts to the sniper rifle

The camera shows us looking down the Sniper rifle’s sight, locked onto the man in the white suit

The camera zooms in and the man in the white suit looks straight back at the camera/sniper sight.

Then a loud gunshot noise and the camera quickly switches to a group of pigeons flying away