The opening sequence starts with Jame bond shooting at the camera with blood flowing from the top of the screen. This has appeared at the start of every Bond movie before Casino Royale and serves to immediately identify the film as a James Bond film. The music starts with a pattern of playing card symbols emerging from the red screen, the symbols are a motif that runs through the entire sequence, linking the Casino based setting of the film and the name of the film. In the middle of the screen the credits begin to appear, fading in and out. The font is a thin white type with no serif that appears small on the screen. This type seems quite old fashioned, however it is the same font style that appears in the older James Bond movies, as Casino Royale is a prequel to all other James Bond movies, it fits well.
The James Bond opening sequences are well known to be very graphic intensive and symbolic to the rest of the film. This is shown with the playing card symbols, playing cards, roulette wheels and stylistic spiral patterns, fitting with the elegant casino setting of the film. Actors also appear throughout the sequence as silhouettes, fitting with the graphic style of the sequence. Unlike other opening sequence to James Bond movies, there are no women dancing; as Casino Royale is a prequel to the James Bond movies. Casino Royale also focuses more on a more meaningful relationship for Bond and how this is doomed to fail for him.
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