2. Lord Of War
Some lament the invention of CGI, they see it as the death of true cinema. However it is well thought out and smartly executed ideas like this that show what a great addition to the medium it can be. Lord of War is a film about an international arms dealer played by a subdued-by his standards- Nikolas Cage, yet here we follow something much smaller than the large selection of illegal weapons he has access to. For nearly three minutes we follow the journey of a single bullet, from the production line in Russia right through to the second it kills a child in Africa. Set to the sound of For What Its Worth by Buffalo Springfield, the sequence serves as an excellent representation of one of the key themes of the movie; as we see the bullet makes its way from the weapons factor y in which it was created to the other side of the world in Africa and into the gun, which will fire it at the child. The murder of this kid is what makes the opening credits so powerful, this is the arms dealing business in a nutshell, for all the thousands of weapons they supply and the thousands more bullets they produce, it only takes one. There is a large amount of guns that change hands in this movie, the main character profits from the selling of these weapons and this scene shows the consequences of his and those in gun smuggling trades actions. It only takes one bullet to kill a person, one pull of a trigger to end someones life and these bullets are made by the lorry load and find themselves in the hands of people within days.