Cape fear analysis

Cape fear

Key things the audience sees watching the first 2/3 minutes of the film are expressed through the iconography such as the extreme close up of  eyes in the water, them the water turns to a bloody red colour suggesting death and fear. Facial feature close up such as mouths are faded in and out of people laughing giving a creepy impact upon the scene. At  first the viewer will see a stick like object in the water which will soon reveal to be an eagle implying a sense of freedom upon America or other connotations of the bird stalking it's prey as a predictor to kill weak, when this image is shown Robert Dinero's name is revealed suggesting he is like the eagle character. Music is used to build the Renton with the fast tempo soundtrack at the start which opens to the water scene with a sound sting. Martin Scorsese's name is displayed when the drop of gory blood in shown explaining death or murder to his character. Many zooms and close ups are used for x ray images over the water scene and to unfold a silhouette of a mans torso then his hand! The dark deep water giving a significance to the film with all the images we can see being underneath the water suggests such a sinister and eerie tone to the film which also gives the audience a complete contrast in mood through the colours used such a binary opposite of white and red.  The man staring at the eagle gives us an enigma, if we look into depth the positioning of the names are displayed as though Robert is the villain staring at the female character Jessica.