The Big Combo Opening Sequence Analysis

Analysis of the opening sequence to the big combo.



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Production Manager
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Film Editor
Music Editor
Assistant Directors
Set Decorator
Hair Stylist
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Lighting
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Director of Photography
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In the opening scene we are shown an aerial view of the city in which the story is apparently going to talk place. The camera pans around giving us a view of every inch of the city as we see the streetlights and cars. The only light shown comes from sources like cars and the many skyscrapers, this shows that it is night on the city, the sort of time when gangsters carry out their plans.

After the camera has panned through the city it shows people crossing the street to an unknown event, which is later shown to be a boxing fight, a key item in the 50’s cities. It shows the two fighters beginning to fight before cutting to a dark back alley
with limited light from a door, where a woman runs down the alley. She is cornered by a man and after checking her options she decides to run another way.

The man then pursues the women down another dark corridor; he is joined by another man as they both chase the woman down the corridors. Eventually the group run out onto a foyer area and the women is caught by the men. The scene continues to show the woman ordering the men to take her to get something to eat.