Gangster films

fascinated with them. 10. Bow Wow Bow Wow is a rapper turned actor, with his most popular film in 2002 " Like Mike." He also starred in "Roll Bounce," "Lottery Ticket," "Johnson Family Vacation," "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift." These are just a few movies to name that Bow Wow was apart of. 9. Snoop Dog Did you know that Snoop Dog has been in at least 34 films? Who knew that he was in so many films. Some of his roles we know him best as Rodney in " Baby Boy, " that came out in…

Swedish film directed by Felix Herngen, based on the international bestseller novel written by Jonas Jonasson with the same name. Set as a fast paced film with a Forrest Gump-esque approach switching between the present and past of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson). On his 100th birthday, just as the title says, he climbs out a window and disappeared. This film is an an intriguing, comical and eventful twist of world events. Based on a best selling-novel and the highest-grossing Swedish films…

movie, Set It Off, is focused on black female characters who are the main resource in the film. The female characters in, Set it off the specific aspect of black female was…

It was a movie that was based on a true story, of a man by the name of Frank Lucas. American Gangster was basically about Frank Lucas and his life as a big time business man, big time street-pharmacist, but most of all a family man. Frank Lucas was a business man of street drugs; he was a gangster, who transported drugs from Bangkok in the Vietnam War to the east cost of the United States. Frank Lucas was not just and old street-pharmacist, he was smart he had people working for him, people on…

Review of "Get Rich or Die Tryin '" the movie. "Get Rich or Die Tryin '" has been the subject of my essays over the past two weeks. This week I am reviewing the film and making a distinction of the intended audience of the movie. On the surface, it would appear that the movie is attempting to reach the masses with a very entertaining story, packed with drama and action. However, upon closer observation, and depending on who is reviewing the movie, it can be concluded that the movie was…

you would hear in the 30s entertainment.The 30s was the beginning of the racial, sexual and social revolution in the entertainment industry. It also had other influences on the decade. Entertainment in 1930s uses different factors including: theater/film, music and sports/games to unhinge the general public from the obstacles…

The two post World War Two movements that affected the development of film narrative and style were neorealism and the new wave. Neorealism was not as original as historians once thought, but it did create a distinct approach to fictional filmmaking that had an enormous influence on cinema in other countries (FH 330). One of the most vivid Italian films to represent postwar suffering was Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) in 1948. This story is of a worker whose…

Reggie and Frances brings audiences impressed feeling. Theme: The center of the world could be everywhere you loved. Awards:  The best international film in The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &…

Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the "psychedelic western," 1995's "Dead Man," and the gangster/samurai hybrid, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than…

of the Gangster Films Gangster films are the most complex category of films that mirror our view on the moral justice as well as order whether legal or illegal. Crime films are centered on criminal activities such as hoodlums, bootlegging alcohol during Prohibition, bank robbers, and petty theft. Admittedly, the criminal activities that feature in the gangster films are executed against the laws, and they are carried out with no regard to the safety of human life. They evolve around gangsters…