The mise-en-scene at the start shows the waves crashing violently against the rocks, this represents a thriller as its mysterious and you're left wanting to know straight away, why the scene has started off in the sea. It also makes the audience feel a sense of exhilaration at the beginning as they already know that something bad has or is going to happen.
It then goes on to seeing Leonardo DiCaprio laying face down in the sand, looking confused and puzzled, it also shows in looking dirty and unwashed, this represents him to be a man who has had a bad past or is in some trouble with some dangerous people. As he is face down in the sand it makes me think that he hasn't had a very good life and he has always been on the bottom of the hierarchy.
Afterwards a man approaches DiCaprio with a gun poking him in has back, this shows the man to be masculine and wants to show authority, as he isn't afraid to point a gun at somebody who is just laying in the sand, its like he is trying to mark his territory. This represents a thriller as its implying that it is a rough place to live and its also very dangerous if you're not meant to be their.
Later on in the scene it shows a man sat in a chair, in a big room, which suggests that he is a big well respected person who can afford luxury things and men who can protect him. It also shows that he has the ability to empower people into what he wants them to do. As soon after it pans onto a gun on the table, which shows that he doesn't fight with fists and second chances, he gets things dealt with straight away, even if it isn't the right way.
At the end of the scene i am analyzing it shows Leonardo DiCaprio getting dragged in, by two big built men, then infers that he is weak and powerless and the two men are the overpowering one's, being ordered to do things, by the top man. It shows him looking unimportant compared to the rest of the men.
Camera and Editing by Jordan
Camera - Inception there is a low shot of a man laid in the sea asleep you gather from this shot that he may be lost, or homeless or drunk, but seen as this is a thriller it is most likely to be that he is lost and the marks on his skin may show that he may have been in an incident and that is why he is washed up on shore.
He is waking up and by his facial expressions as he is looking around it shows that he doesn't really know where is, or why he is laid in the sea, at this point he may not, even remember his name, they have also shown this, with a low shot of him laid in the sea.
There is a point of view shot of what looks like an officer of some sort as the weapon he is carrying isn't any kind of hand gun people just carry around for protection. The man comes up and pokes the protagonist with his gun he inspects the man and then lifts up the protagonists jacket and there is a gun hidden in his trousers, which may say that he is/was on a mission of some sort and has now got washed up on the shore.
Now the guard or officer has realised that this person laid on the floor isn't just anyone, he calls up to another man on a cliff, it goes from a high angle shot of the man, too a long shot of the cliff and the building, the building looks very expensive and upper class, this may be the place that the protagonist may be trying to break in to, this is why he has a gun and is washed up on the shore and also as the guard/officer shouted for help, they may be scared, which means they may have something to hide, which is very typical of a thriller.
Then it shows an establishing shot of the a room and what it looks like to be the antagonist, sitting in his chair, with guards around him, which may say reinfer that they have something to hide, the proxemits of how close one of them is to the man sat down may say he needs protection and knows people are after him or something he has.
There is then an over the shoulder shot of the man and they have kept his face concealed from full face view or any precise facial features, so you cant pick out who he is just yet, which is very typical of a thriller to keep things building up and have people asking 'why, who, what, when etc?' In the opening minutes.
There is a shot of just the mans hands and it is showing him holding his spoon like he has only just learnt how to eat, which is very peculiar as, the man sat down asks him if he is going to kill him, which shows that this person isn't stupid and should very well know how to hold a spoon right, which may say that he has forgot how to, he may have some kind of amnesia, as he was washed up on the shore and looks banged up.
Editing - At the start when he is waking up they have a shot of a boy playing in the sand, it blurs out of focus, this effect shows that he is waking up and his very effective and is used on a lot of thrillers, he is looking around, like he doesn't know where he is which supports my first point if that this man may be lost and washed up a shore.
When the bodyguards come in to scene one is told to show the antagonist what they found on the man, they put down a gun and a spinning top, they show this with a close up of his hand, they blur out the gun and put the spinning top in focus, with isn't usual as usually they would put the gun in focus as a gun is a dangerous weapon for a man to carry but it puts this in focus, which may say that this is more important than a gun, the protagonist may be part of a group, who carry this as there symbol and people know them by this spinning top, this shot is very typical for a thriller as it is only one shot and will have the audience, guessing why they want you to focus on the spinning top and not the gun, something i hope to achieve in our thriller intro.
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