Sexy Beast was a very humorous opening sequence to analyse as we have this man who we suspect is the 'sexy beast'.
You get an immediate sense of this man's personality as we see him talking to himself about how hot it is, lounging in skimpy yellow speedos, icing his package and looking more and more like a lobster by the second. His working class, cockney accent suggest he's a 'geeza' who possibly is an ex-mobster/gang member and that maybe he's on early retirement, isolating himself from the world.
The music suggests that this man is totally and utterly relaxed and doesn't care- this is proven when an unrealistic boulder misses him by just a few inches. All the sexy beast does is cares about is the fact he got wet and then jumps into the pool.
We also see short shots of a women driving in a sports car in the same location as the sexy beast, is she driving to him? It gives a sense of mystery.
I personally thought The Shining had quite a boring introduction and I thought the writing/credits looked tacky in the electric blue and starting from the bottom and elevating upwards did not look good.
I thought it was very well shot and it gave good context to the location of the film. It was very clever how the camera would tease the audience as a few times the camera would come very close to the car and then sweep pass it in order for the audience to keep guessing who was in the car. The wide shots gave a sense of isolation and when the shot of the mansion is shown we understand that that is where the horror is going to happen.
The music defiantly told the genre of the film- thriller/horror as it's very creepy and mysterious.
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