My Theoretical film analysis of Fury

The film starts with words on the screen to describe what the events are that occur. It gives the viewer the setting and era.

Introduction of the name of the film. The colours are red and white, are very bold compared to the black background. The red and white flicker like fire to draw the viewers attention.

Words appear again to tell the audience more about the setting and what year its set in. from the year “1945” we instantly know that the film is based on WW2.

The first view of life is shown, there is a figure walking out of the light. Not much is given to the audience because it is silhouetted. This may be considered a master shot as the man comes closer because it shows the scene and the character all in one shot.

In this shot the figure turns into a man on a horse. During this shot more of the scene is being shown as the horse moves into the scene. A tracking crab shot is used as the horse walks. The is a cut between the walking horse and the horses feet. This is called match on action.

This film is about war and lots of tanks used in the war. The scene of the man moving through the deserted land on a horse, shows tanks everywhere. This gives a bit of the enigma code, tells us more about the plot.

The active fire in this scene shows that someone has been there recently, creating the enigma code. Throughout the whole of the introduction, it is completely silhouetted.

A soldier hiding behind the tank comes and attacks the man on the horse. This is a wide shot as it still shows the scene and both men. The rule of thirds doesn’t really exist here because the characters are in the middle and not off to the side.

In this shot, the man is killing the other man who was on the horse. Mise en scene was used just before the man was knocked down. The man on the horse was wearing an army hat. As the man stabs the man on the horse, there is diegetic and non diegetic sounds. The diegetic sound is the grunts of the murderer as he stabs and the non diacritic sound is the continuous building of tension.

The rouge soldier has successfully killed the man on the horse. The diegetic sound from the man hitting the other man tells us that he was using force. The dead man has blood dripping off his face, this could be a binary opposition. The face is pale whereas the blood is dark. This shot is a close up of the side of the dead mans face.

The last shot I have taken from the introduction was the tilt up to the killer. This shot shows who the killer is and his face, which has a stern look. The Roland Barthes codes were used in this intro. The Hermeneutic code is used throughout the whole introduction. There is lots of mystery as to why the man is walking through the war field. The Proairetic code is used to build tension. There is lots of tension in this intro as we don’t know exactly what the man is doing or why a man killed him. There is lots of questions that the viewer may ask in this intro

By Tia Brown