Analysis of Snatch opening sequence

Analysis of Snatch.
Snatch is a Gangster thriller.

In the opening sequence of snatch its starts off with two characters, with it starting with these two it shows that they are most likely to be the people in most of the film, these characters are called 'Turkish' and 'Tommy', Turkish and Tommy are seated and Turkish is talking about what he does and that he doesn't know a thing about diamonds this lets the audience have a guess at to what the film is about. After Turkish and Tommy have been introduced, it moves on to a different place called 'Antwerp' this is labelled in the scene as well. With the opening sequence changing place shows that one of the places are to do with the rest of the film. The scene is in a diamond bank, this relates to what Turkish was saying before.

When the other characters enter the bank and then rob it for the diamonds and one mighty diamond stone it then goes on to introduce the rest of the people that are going to be in the film. When its showing each different character, shows scenery that you can represent to that character and get an understanding to where and what the character does. For example Franky four fingers, is in a game of poker this shows that he is a gambler and his name tells you that his lost a finger, this might mean he lost his finger in a gambling debt. Another example would be Mickey from the short shot that you get to see from his lifestyle it looks as if his in a caravan, the audience would see the way he looks and represent him with a gypsy.