Analysing opening sequences to films - 'Sexy Beast'

The opening of 'Sexy Beast' addresses the audience, to what we immediately react to, an old (ish), retired man that looks rather wealthy as he lounges by a poolside in a villa. This instantly creates meaning and questioning to why this man is here and why he is so wealthy. His chain/sunglasses/speedo look present this idea to the audience. The mise-en-scene instantly tells us that the theme and genre of this film is 'gangster'.

We then later find out that a boulder crashes into his pool and again, creating meaning of whether this is intentional or not. This sets up the story of whether someone is after him or someone is looking for revenge.

The opening dialogue is him saying, "bloody 'ell, i'm sweatin' 'ere... roastin', bakin', boilin', swelterin'... 's like a sauna", this addresses that he has an accent (cockney) and his speech quality is rough. His language is not clear and he does not use proper English. This again tells us more about his character and what sort of person he might be. The opening dialogue doesn't tell us much about why he is there, it only represents to us the current situation he is in which is 'hot and bothered' and because he has nothing else to do, this adds context to his character.

The camera angles used are to show the position the character is in. We a wide shot to allow us to what he is doing. This shot tells us that he is hot as we see his veins throb on his forehead, and his body is pink and looks burnt. This tells us his character looks a little too old to be sunbathing so extremely this and this gives us the idea that he is retired and he is wealthy as he has time to sunbathe. We are also given a shot of a young woman driving; this tells us that she is driving to him as the shot is cut after we see him. This gives us an idea of that she is maybe his young wife, and because he is wealthy and retired now, she uses him for this.