The Dark Knight Rises

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WomtYMqeAe8

The Dark Knight Rises opens with a group of armed men on a small plane with one group of men holding guns and wearing a military uniform and holding guns which suggest that they of high importance and the other group of men have their hands tied behind their backs and have black sacks over their heads.This is revealed through a medium shot in which one of the military men reveals that he is CIA and that he only needs one of the three masked men and that he will let one of the men live if they tell him about their leader who is known as Bane.This questionable action is often associated with thrillers as the CIA agent who is supposed to be a “good” is willing to throw someone out of a plane and this creates tension as it suggests that Bane is a well known figure among the criminal underworld.

A diegetic, ambient sound of wind can be heard when one of the military men opens the door to the plane while it is in mid flight and the CIA agent picks up one of the men and after asking him about Bane, he shoots the gun near his head to make the other men think he has been killed.An extreme long shot has been used here to show most of the plane and the man who thinks he is about to be thrown out of the plane.

A shot reverse shot is used when the CIA agent is talking to another masked man who spoke to him about pretending to shoot the other man and after taking off the mask he is revealed to be Bane himself.This scene is accompanied with complete silence other than Bane’s distorted voice as he tells the agent that nobody cared whom Bane was until he put on the mask.This creates tension as it makes Bane seem mysterious and intimidating and it also reveals that not only is Bane a very large man, he is also very intelligent.