Analysis of Leon

In the opening scenes of Leon, its pans across trees and water. The camera then carries us across a landscape and cuts into a city road. The camera then moves into a dark doorway, which leads into a shop. It then leads into a room which is lit very dull, where 2 men are sitting at a table. You can only see one man. You can only see the other mans dark glasses and his hands, in which he is holding a glass of milk. The shot then carries us through into a hotel where we see a stocky gangster. From the opening scenes we can see that there will be some sort of gangster trouble as there is use of dark lighting, and dark shades. We first see Leon in his shades, but the rest of his identity remain hidden. In the opening of a scene we can see spiral staircases, these are used to create a mystery because we can't see who is coming up the stairs but we can hear them. The opening of the scene shows a stocky gangster in a hotel, who is having sex with a blonde girl, and is dealing with drugs. Leon kills all of the gangster's bodyguards, in a clever, but simple way. The shots show how he kills the bodyguard's but still they don't reveal his identity. There is a moment when the stocky gangster tries to escape, but Leon has cleverly blocked him in the room, meaning that the stocky gangster can't escape. We then see Leon emerge from a dark doorway and put a knife up to the stocky gangster's throat. After Leon has finished with the stocky man, he goes back to his apartment, where Matilda, a young innocent girl is introduced. She is sitting in between the railings of the spiral staircase, looking down, smoking a cigarette. The young girl is shown to have been beaten by her father. When Leon arrives back at his apartment, Matilda confides in him.