Warner Bros 'Confidential'

After the Great Depression in 1929, Hollywood entered a sort of golden age for film. It was perceived that audiences went to the theatres in order to distract themselves from their current misery. Hollywood pictures then started to have a changed mood of cynicism in their films, which provided a sense of realism for the audience. Because of the new contempt for law and government after the Great Depression, studios such as Warner Bros. Entertainment started to fill up theaters across America with films that allowed their audiences to revel in the adventures of organized criminals. Warner Bros. used to be considered as one of the “Big Five” studios that prevailed in Hollywood. The studio then built a reputable house style over the years in which their movies were known to have decidedly masculine and working-class characters, urban settings, and a case of realism. Few women played major roles in their pictures, and their movies were often pessimistic and cynical, which made Warner Bros. famous for their gangster films. …show more content…
Confidential is a 1997 film that is based on 1950’s Los Angeles and revolves around three individual Los Angeles Police Department officers that serve cases toward their own meanings of justice. Although the film was made in 1997, decades past the golden age for Hollywood and Warner Bros. Entertainment, the movie can be shown to still represent the cynical and gangster-type films that Warner Bros. is reputably known for. The movie portrays the actions of police corruption that occurs throughout the city and also the intersection that this corruption has with Hollywood and media. Bursting a sense of realism, this film provided a somewhat realistic atmosphere that displayed how society was at the time of brutality and corruption and how justice was