Opening title sequence analysis - Sexy Beast

The sequence opens with a camera shot directed towards the sun, immediately telling the audience we are somewhere hot/sunny. The camera then cuts to a birds eye view of a man sunbathing and commenting on how good the weather. The mans cockney accent and the jewellery tells the audience he is a wealthy man who is perhaps living in a hot country. Upbeat, Non-diegetic music starts to play as the man sits up from his sun-bed. The music complements the location as it has references to the sun and sunbathing. The man then tells the pool boy to start working harder, once again showing his wealth and dominance to the audience. The man then puts a cold, wet flannel over his genitals to cool them down. This and his strong cockney accent and the jewellery helps the audience to see that he may not be a formal business man and might be a gangster. 

The camera then cuts to another birds eye review but of the man next to the swimming pool. There are two hearts in the tiles of the pool. It then quickly cuts behind a women driving a car. This suggests to the audience that this may be his wife or partner because the hearts suggest there was a lady's touch involved with designing or purchasing the villa. The camera then cuts back to the man he sits up once again and commands the pool boy to go and get him some beers, once again asserting his dominance. The man then stands up and starts to walk towards the pool and pics up a fan. The camera then cuts to a rolling motion on a hill as we soon find out is a boulder rolling towards the man and his villa. 

The camera does short duration shots between the rolling motion and and still view of the boulder rolling down the hill. The boulder misses the man and lands in the pool. The camera then immediately cuts to the woman driving again. This gives the audience speculation that the women may have been involved because in the first shot of her driving she went from right to left of the camera and the second time after the boulder hit she went from left to right suggest she was driving to and away from the villa.