'Spectre' (2015, Sam Mendes) Title Sequence Analysis (#2)

NOTES:

• Sam Mendes (auteur); just like the 'Skyfall' (2012) title sequence, a slow fluid-like pace is present - again, very few cuts employed and lots of shot transitions.
• Intertextuality; the protagonist's love interest, Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) and antagonist, Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) from the 'Casino Royale' (2007) instalment, plus, his 'mothering' figure, M, (Judi Dench) and antagonist, Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) from the 'Skyfall' (2012) instalment.
• Sound, again, helping to shape the slow pace; no other auditory codes besides the synchronous, orchestral soundtrack is employed. Essentially, this title sequence is a music video, however, the overlaying white texts make it distinguishable as a title sequence.
• Negatively themed; strong use, again, of chiaroscuro lighting, enables connotations like: death, depression, loss, blame and isolation to be evoked - all linking directly to the eponymous protagonist.
• Iconography communicates the genre with relative ease again; weapons, shadows, 'femme fatales', suave suits, mirrors. 
• Attempt at deviating from Mendes' auteur; the sequence having a particular focus on performance - something remotely focused on in the prior instalment's title sequence.
• Elements of deterioration again; the glass shattering with Silva - above antagonist - on it.
• Soundtrack parallels with visuals; particularly with lines like 'could you break my fall?', where we witness the protagonist and a engulfed-in-shadows woman falling down the frame.
• Particular focus on an octopus; depicted as something overarching the protagonist and overshadowing him, we see it slowly constraining Vesper Lynd's arms and legs for instance in the intimate shot of her with the protagonist, serving to remind spectators of her death and subsequently connoting it being the causation of it. Ultimately, the octopus serves metaphor of the damage the illicit organisation, 'spectre', has done to the protagonist's life. The wide-angle/tracking shot of it shooting cephalopod ink - like bullets - and it ricocheting across the frame connotes that it is still continuing to damage his life in particular - if belief is correct - or lives in general, most likely the former.
• Significance in props to narrative; starting through 'traveling' into an octopus logo on a ring and ending through exiting it.