Gangster films

a strong base, but the transitions between many of the confusing stories are ruff. I like the beginning and ending because the movie is many different pieces but comes as one in the end. This movie breaks the 4th wall many times. The actors in the film talk like were a movie and they 're watching us. I think that 's kind of cool if you look that it from other perspectives. The cinematography was bad in my point of view. There wasn 't anything special. I looked like a 4th grader took a handycam…

and color revolutions and the advance of the "Talkies", and the further development of film genres. It was the decade in which the silent period ended, with many silent film stars not making the transition to sound. By 1933, the economic effects of the Depression were being strongly felt, especially in decreased movie theatre attendance. Although the movie industry considered itself Depression-proof, the film industry was just as vulnerable to the Depression’s impact as any other industry. To…

This film proved that Kim Ki-duk's presence in a movie is a pledge of success by its own self. This time, the Korean auteur penned the script, with Jang Hoon, the director, being one of the many assistants Kim had in his films, learning "the art" in "The Bow." The combination proved very successful, with "Rough Cut" recording more admissions than all of the previous Kim's films combined. Soo-ta's career (the name is actually a parody of the Korean word for (movie) star) is on the verge of…

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…

everlasting American dream. This film show us how Arthur Agee and William Gates, despite their instability and weaknesses, will demonstrate to the whole world that big dreams came true if you really want it. These two guys will achieve fortune and fame through hard work and sweating and they will demonstrate to the whole world what they are capable of. The film was released in 1994 and it was directed by Steve James. The director spent almost 8 years on this film and in the end it was all worth…

Films have been a major part of America’s history, as well as its identity, for many years, and they have developed alongside our country. Movies have been popular since their debut in the late 1800s, and the people’s fascination and pure adoration of them has not died down since. This infatuation has led to the development of filmmaking, because, as Americans, we are always striving for better; therefore, American filmmakers have been creating numerous ways to advance movies to become more…

been portrayed correctly. The stereotypes should be avoided in movies to maintain the racial equality. In action movies, the phenomenon of stereotypes appears frequently. For example, in police crime movies, African Americans are often portrayed as gangsters or drug dealers. Most action movies establish the portraits of African Americans as outlaws. Such stereotypes leave people a bad memory of African Americans in the society. Essentially, the stereotype in action movies is racial…

The Repenting Gangster Sarah Vazquez ENFL 357 - American Film Beginning to 1945 Fall 2014 Professor Art Simon When it comes to the classic gangster genre of the 1930’s, films like Little Caesar and The Public Enemy immediately come to mind. They tell the glorified story of the rise and fall of the charismatic “badman” gangster. However, toward the end of 1930’s there was a drastic change in the film industry where societal concern over moral standards depicted in film shaped the way…

Hollywood. In response to these times, the film industry created a studio system in which only the most important of films were produced by one of five studios. Typically, each of these studios was also the owners of prominent theatre chains that spanned both domestically and internationally. Warner Bros, one of the five studios in Hollywood’s pioneered system, was chosen to sit at the forefront of the entertainment industry and produce the most remarkable films and musicals. During this time,…

The Great Depression is a major part of American history and had a significant role in the growth of the motion picture industry. From 1929 to 1939, America was in an economic recession that impacted most industries for the worse. The film industry had to adapt to the economic downturn by accommodating to their audiences. As Morris Dickstein shows in Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, even though the decade was of economic downturn, it “created a vibrant culture…