Gangster films

The films The Adventures of Félix, directed by Oliver Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, and Tomboy , directed by Céline Sciamma, each cause viewers to question the identities of the characters within the films and maybe even their own identities. Due to the directors’ use of similar styles of self-discovery and equivalent identities , connections can be found between the main characters of both films, Félix and Mikäel. Additionally, varying styles of narration communicate numerous complimentary…

In this essay I shall be comparing the representation of British youth from an actual established film and television soap. Representation is the way the media symbolizes something as being for real in reality. A stereotype is a label which involves a process of categorisation and evaluation. In the UK the British youth is stereotyped as a group of young violent, aggressive, hoodie worn, knife carrying thugs, who do nothing in their lives but drinking, taking drugs, having sex at a young age and…

politique des auteurs by film critics such as François Truffaut. The auteur theory can be described as director’s personality illustrated in the film, which reoccur throughout several other of their movies by the consistency of themes, genre and cinematic style classifying them as an auteur. An example of highly professional director that can be regarded as an auteur is Martin Scorsese, possessing the features of technical expertise, personality exhibition throughout films creating their…

the homonymous manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" is the most commercially successful title of the list having spawned video games, light novels, an anime series, a two-part film, a spin-off movie, while a new film is scheduled to screen this October. This entry is for the first two films. The story follows Yagami Light, a student who discovers a notebook, that when someone writes a name of someone in it, this individual dies after a few days. L is world renowned detective,…

The 1998 film American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, delves into issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity as it confronts us with the story of the Vinyard sons Derek and Danny. Reeling from the shooting of their father at the hands of a black gangster, Derek and Danny become heavily involved in a neo-Nazi gang. The movie sheds light on racial tensions and relationships both in everyday Los Angeles and in prison, which stabilize the concepts of race and ethnicity, as they rooted in…

analyse the meaning or try to see a forming pattern. In films this theory emphasizes how certain film clips convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions that are similar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication. (Sternagel, 2012) However, structuralism film theory differs from linguistic theory as its codifications include more of an apparent temporal aspect, (Sternagel, 2012) in other words, the film is moving in time…

classic western films ever made by a director who was so versatile that many people might confuse him with other great western directors like John Ford or Anthony Mann, but Howard Hawks had an eye for character driven stories, had an expert sense of visual style, and knew how to use actors better than most. Hawks was one of those classic Hollywood directors that could easily orchestrate the action and compelling aspects that make a great western, and Red River is one. The film Red River (1948)…

multicultural nation in which all cultures and races are “represented” in America. As a nation of immigrants, this country has and is still facing many racial issues. The movie Crash, directed and produced by Paul Haggis in 2004 as an American drama film portrays race relations in America. The movie is based in the city of Los Angeles with characters of different races, gender, age, and social class statuses. Although all characters are in unique situations they all collide and play a role in…

The film Slumdog Millionaire was released in year 2008. It was directed by Danny Boyle who is a British Director and achieved eight Oscar awards for quality of performance in the arenas like cinematography, sound mixing, direction, film editing, etc. This movie is adopted from a novel “Q & A” which is written by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The movie is picturized in slum part of Mumbai, Indian background. The movie is a package of motivation, love, tragedy, action, eagerness and…

The Godfather is a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Gordon Hugh Willis. It is a film of the gangster genre because it involves mafia and has different aspects that will suggest and show why it is in reality a gangster genre film. The Godfather is a film that involves a family who is in the mafia and they are called the Corleone family. Which is going to show how the life of the main character would change and now it would center around the mafia lifestyle and becomes known as the…