Lord of War is a 2005 crime war film directed by Andrew Niccol. The film follows Nicolas Cage who plays and illegal arms dealer. The story is inspired by real life arms dealers and smugglers.
The sequence sets the audience into the eyes of a bullet and its journey all the way up to its use in the end. The shots consist of a lot of POV shots as the bullet goes across a variety of different terrains. The colours change drastically from the dull blue and grey in the construction to more bright colours when its used in Africa. This already shows the theme which heavily surrounds war and gun culture in Africa and how guns can travel from the first world countries to the third well countries.
The typography used has a strong military theme. It has a silver colouring and is very bold and blocky. The positioning of the typography differs. Sometimes it is placed in the centre but other times either the left or right. The typography is also made in a way so the names of the people are bold whereas what ever they in the film isn't for example "written and directed by" is in a smaller font whereas "Andrew Niccol" is more bold and bigger.
The song used in the opening sequence is called "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield. The song itself has a country/rock sound and sounds quite happy, which cant be said about what's going in the background which is showing people getting ready for war by dealing weapons and ammunition. This is good use of contrapuntal sound as the music doesn't go with what's going on at all. I think this is done to show how numb people are to war and the happy music shows that the arms dealers don't really care that these weapons will be used in some sort of war and used to kill people, including civilians.
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