opening 2 minutes of Mechanic

In the clip we can see that main protagonist is strong, attractive and athletic, which shows stereotypes of main characters in action films. In action film like Mechanic, the audience wants muscly, brave and charismatic main hero. Camera uses the close up to the body of Jason Statham to impress the people around 25-34 to be example of real man. The actual story is about the killer, where people hiring him to kill bad people.

Camera shot in the beginning uses zooming to golden watches to show how rich is the killing target. Rich people in action films are always antagonists. Furthermore, rich person in this film hired foreign people to protect him from external enemies. The scene where the antagonists is swimming in his own swimming pool, the camera using close up and changing camera angle to far shot scene to show hall swimming pool. Another scene shows thug's shoulder using high angle shot, where his hired people securing him and watching him how he is swimming. Then, we see the close up of right arm of the crime lord, then we another close up of his face where crime lord starts screaming. Subsequently, we see many close ups and changing low and middle angles of the crime lord's face, because the main protagonist starting choking him to death and looks beautiful.