Sound Analyse of Opening scene- Kingsman: The Secret Service

Sound Analysis Of Opening Scene-Kingsman: The Secret Service

The opening scene of Kingsman: The Secret Service starts withe diegtic sound between the hostage and a agent. The hostage questions why he is being held hostage and declares his innocence. This makes the audience agree with him as this is the first scene of the film and they have no clue why he is there either. This starts to create a bout of mystery. The agent  sends a colleague to get the hostage a whiskey. Then there is a knock on the door. All the agents look at each other confused to who is at the door. Music is then added (non-diegetic) creating mystery to what the heck is actually happening.

The music builds up becoming more in tense every step the agent makes.agent opens the door to a British agent who adds humor to the situation by saying 'i suppose asking to borrow a cup of sugar is a step to far'. This then leads to massive gun fight 1 versus 4. This involves the British guy the minority winning. During this scene diegtic sounds of gun fire, reloading, things falling screaming e.t.c are included in the scene to make it realistic.

The hostage is just as confused as the audience to why he is being kept hostage. The British agent confirms he is here to save him. The British agent hears footsteps from the back. He then shoots him as he enters the main room and there is a loud non-diegtic sound as the bullet hits him. He acts dead casual as if nothing happened despite taking out everyone like a ninja. The music fades out and suddenly comes back in as there is another knock occurs at the door again making the characters and the audience shocked again. 

As he slowly makes a movements towards the door and the same sound effect is used as he gets sliced in half(non-diegtic). Diegtic sound of him splitting of half is added and sounds very wet. This creates more confusion to who is at the door and who the women is that killed him. This is reflected upon by the hostages facial expression as he has no clue too to what is going on.

The women gives the hostage some towels and cuts the rope keeping him tied to the chair. You can hear her metal prosthetic leg clashing of the floor every step she takes, the same ones she used to kill the British agent, as she puts sheets over the dead body. Music tension builds up as she finally walks to the door to answer to the person stood here during the hectic scene. The music fades when his face appears. The women also acts as if nothing has happened when she says 'everything is clean' vert calmly. The scene ends there.

Overall, sound is used a lot in this opening scene to create mystery of what is going on and who is who. Also, it is done to create tension and show the in the hectic scene how action packed and intense it is too. The diegtic sound used shows the realism of what it would be like to be in that situation with true sounds i.e. gun fire. Also, the non-diegtic sound was used to spice up the scene a bit i.e. tension and mystery. The use of the empathetic sound effects adds more action to the scene.