Opening Titles for Lord of War (2005)

Title Sequence Order

·     Entrainment Manufacturing Company

·     Saturn Films

·     Entrainment manufacturing company presents
·     A vip medienfonds 3, ascendant pictures, saturn film production

·     in association with rising star, copag v, and endgame entertainment
·     Nicolas Cage
·     Lord of War
·     Jared Leto
·     Bridget Moynahan
·     Ian Holm
·     Eamonn Walker
·     Sammi Rotibi, Eugene Lazarev
·     Jean-Pierre Nshanian, Shake Toukhmanian
·     and Ethan Hawke
·     Casting by Mindy Marin. C.S.A
·     Music by Antonio Pinto
·     Costume Designer Elisabetta Beraldo
·     Editied by Zach Staenberg, A.C.E
·     Production Designer Jean Vincent Puzos
·     Director of Photography Amir Mokri
·     Executive Line Producer Ronaldo Vasconcellos
·     Douglas E. Hansen co-producer
·     Fabrice Gianfermi Executive Producers Bradley Cramp, Gary Hamilton
·     Christopher Eberts Executive Producers Andreas Schmid, Michael Mendelsohn, Jmaes D. Stern

·     Producers Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly
·     Producers Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts
·     Philippe Rousselet Produced by Andrew Niccol
·     Written and Directed by Andrew Niccol

In this opening sequence we trace the path of a bullet from production to it's fire. Nicolas Cage begins with narration "There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s 1 firearm for every 12 people on the planet. The only question is...How do we arm the other 11?” As we are introduced the audience is enticed and from the opening can gather its about an arms dealer of some sort. This is shown through the life of a single bullet.

This bullets life cycle gives the audience a clear indication of what is to come from the movie. It's shown cleverly through the bullets creation and inspection, to being crated to some unnamed war-torn African Nation. Its then placed inside a the chamber of a semi-automatic, and as the director's credits is about to appear the bullet leaves the barrel and right into the skull of a child solider.

The opening is not subtle and the non-daigetic music of Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth' makes it all the more blunt however it establishes the network of human destruction with efficiency.