Aspects of a Typical Gangster Film

In a film in this typical genre, setting plays an important role in the play because you need to keep the atmosphere tense and mysterious, in reservoir dogs, they use an empty room with nothing in it to interrogate the police man, these could be metaphors for the empty spaces in there hearts that are needed to torture someone like this. Also in this film, on the rare occasion you actually see the group out on the street they still use a plane scenery e.g a brick wall, they also add into the scenery things that set the time the film was set in such as a car, just to show the year and the typical features of that time frame.


I think my group could incorporate these ideas into our film very easily and also they would be very beneficial towards the success of the film, Also the use of the scenery is very vibrant in colour in contrast to the men who are in very dull outfits that give the impression that they are business men. We could also use this contrast between characters by setting statuses with the outfits, the boss could be in an outfit just like the men in reservoir dogs, the chav in a typical tracksuit (like the guy at that back but dated to the 21st century) and the druggie could have his clothes loose fitting and scruffy to show the the is the lowest status of the group that we just have around to keep the numbers up.

Kidulthood is also a film we would like to incorporate into out film, we think the aspects of the film such as the language and the story line, are great things that relate to out film and we could use this film as a great guideline, Also the teens in this film are also roughly the same age as the people in our film, therefore there are certain tiny parts of the film that we could use such as when one of the boys leaves his house he makes sure he says bye to his mum, just as a reminder to the audience that these boys are only teens and most of there attitude is just an act to look cool. Also in kidulthood they use great camera angles to show status and place, a great example of this is at the end of the film when the big tough man Sam is on the floor and the camera angle is looking up as a point of view shot looking into another mans eyes as he points a gun to Sam's face and makes him beg, this is a great shot showing Sam's status being washed down the drain and weakening him whilst showing how vulnerable this position is.
I feel my group could input this into our film to show how each individuals role is different within the gang and how we all think of each other without actually saying it to each other.