Childsplay 2 Opening Annotation

Childs Play 2
director: John Lafia
Year: 1990
Budget:$13M

IDENTS

• Universal Pictures
• Universal and MCA company
• David Kirschner production
• John Lafia Film

Non diagetic, fast beat music is played during and after the idents to create tension at the beginning of the film.

Extreme close up of an eye which revolves around.

Shot changes to an extreme long shot of a limo driving across a secluded road, denoting that the person in the limo is an authorative or rich figure, also denoting the time era of when the film was set. 

Extreme long shot of a city - possibly signifying that the limo is going to that city. 

Close up shot of a burnt dolls face being taken to pieces (e.g. eye is being popped out) with a sharp metal knife (foreshadowing that a knife may be used later on in the film)

CHILDS PLAY 2 (serif text, yet the 2 is in front of the lettering and is a red colour denoting blood)

Long shot of limo moving towards the city connoting the setting of the film and where the film is based.

Knife, chisel and a circular saw are used to clean a doll, possibly the doll with the same eye as the opening shot, this could be foreshadowing the weapons used in the killings later on in the film. 

Close ups and high angle shots are used showing the same doll being re painted and dressed, denoting that the doll will look 'new' and could also be signifying the 'rebirth of chuckie'.  

Extreme long shot of limo driving into a doll toy factory. (Dolls the same as chuckie)

Middle aged tall man gets out of the back of the limo, denoting his importance. 

A man who is wearing glasses, and is smaller than the man from the limo rushes to meet this man, he says 'Good morning Mr Sullivan'' denoting that the man from the limo is an authorative character. 

A long shot of the 2 men walking along the corridors of the factory is shown. 

Their conversation consists of 'Every supermarket tabloid in the country is making stories about...' . This use of narrative enigma allows the audience to know what the situation of the story is and what has happened since Childs Play 1. 

Medium and low 2 person shots are shown of the same chuckie whom has been remade and from Childs Play 1 on an operating table with 2 lab technicians in the doll construction room. 

The music intensifies as one of the technicians tries to resolve some machinary which has got stuck, he gets it to work again, yet seconds after, it electricutes him and Chuckie (The audience knows this because there are screams and electric bolts and noises all over the man and chuckie)

The man is forced through the glass window through the power of the electric shock and falls before Mr Sullivan, there is a close up of his face which is bright red and disfigured, rather like a doll. These events connote the re birth of chuckie and the death of the man responsible for bringing him back from the dead, so to speak. 

CROSS CUTS ARE SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE OPENING TO SHOW TWO DIFFERENT MIS EN SCENE'S WHICH ARE EMERGED TOGETHER.

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