Sexy Beast Opening Title Sequence Analysis

26.9.2014

Sexy Beast Opening Title Sequence Analysis

Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2WwRjvQkY

Genre:  This movie is a crime movie, we can tell it is during this sequence by the following reasons;

•  The man lives in a very desolate are, thus suggesting that he may be hiding from something that he may have done at some point.
• He lives in a very posh house, but he himself doesn't seem like a very posh person, therefore suggesting that he has gorton a lot of money somehow, but maybe not in the right way.
• When the boulder rolls down the hill at the end he doesn't seem very phased by it which may indicate that he is used to violence or surprises, which may suggest he is in an industry that involves a lot of it
• There is also a sense of a comedic atmosphere to this sequence, I personally thought that it may have been a comedy more than anything when I watched it, before I looked what the genre actually was. Even the title of the movie registered as more of a comedic movie that anything else. 

Music:

• The music is much more upbeat that in The Shining, also why I thought that it may be more of a comedy. 
• The music is very lighthearted, although during a lot of the opening sequence the main character, Ray Winstone, is talking.

Introduction to Characters:

   

• Throughout the sequence we get introduced to 3 characters; the main guy, played by Ray Winstone, the pool boy and a woman driving in her car.
• We, the audience, presume that the first man we see in the clip is the main character because we see the most of him, and also because he is the narrating what is going on at the start. 
• We are not too sure who the woman is but because there is a clip of two hearts in the pool next to the man which then cuts to the clip of the woman indicates that she has some sort of relationship with the main guy.
• Judging by the fact that she is also driving away from us, we can make an educated guess that she is driving towards the other guy.

Production Information:

• There is a very prominent Film Four advertisement at the begging to let the audience know who produced the film.
• information presented is in a very small font, and isn't placed right in the middle of the screen.  This is because the focus on the audience should be on what the main actor in saying at the time, and if the font was too big and obnoxious people would be focusing on that instead.
• We get a lot of information at the start of the film, mainly who the actors are but also what company produced  it: Film Four.