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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Conventions of a Gangster film

What makes a gangster film?

- Guns?

- A crime family?

- A movie plot that has violence at every corner? 

- Organised crime? 

- Or just a bunch of hoodlums acting tough? 

It is important to remember that all these elements add to a gangster film are alone and do not constitute a good gangster film.


  • A gangster film, when looked at from an American perspective, is the warped idea of the "American dream." 
- To be rich and successful with the most power, one can obtain. 
- It speaks to the American public, the evidence being the huge popularity of gangster films in the American film industry. 

  • Films from across the Atlantic, namely from Britain have made themselves necessary to Mafia movie junkies. 
  • Of course not to forget that our own country has made some notable gangster films too. 

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