Dirty Harry (1971) Opening Titles

Dirty Harry (1971) — Art of the Title

This title i think is the perfect way to open a thriller film, the first bit of the opening is a wall of tributes to police officers of San Francisco who have died, this shows us that it is a crime thriller and the setting is San Francisco. The next thing we see is a close up of the end of a gun silencer with some intense music, the next camera shot is from the scope of a gun watching a woman, they use a woman because they are supposed to be seen as the helpless victim. They then switch between shots of the man holding the gun and what is down the scope until he shoots her. We then see our protagonist Harry Callahan walk as the name of the actor that play him, Clint Eastwood, appears at the bottom of the screen he then walks over to other police officers investigating the crime scene of the murder seen previously, we then see him walking up lots of stairs and across a rooftop until we see him at the location of the killer we saw he sees a note from the killer and a shell casing these are the catalysts for the rest of the story.