Analysis Of The Gangster Genre

The gangster genre is well known for action scenes, scenes of violence , corruption, drug use and gambling and sometimes scenes of a sexual nature. Well known gangster films include films like Oceans 11, James Bond, The Godfather, Goodfella's and Reservoir dogs. The opening scene of the majority of these films tend to be dimly lit, this is used to create a sense of mystery and suspense. All the well known gangster films contain scenes of violence and add sound effects like gunshots and explosions in the post production stage of filming this gives a sense of tension,suspense and atmosphere to the film. Many ganagster films use cross cutting to cut from one event to another to further increase the suspense of the film as your waiting to see whats going to happen next keeping leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. Gangster films usually use props like cars usually used in car chase scenes, pistols, machine guns, explosives almost anything that can be used as a weapon such as crowbar,axe etc.  I also found that with the title sequences on many of the films that all the heading's were in bold this is so their names stand out so we can clearly identify who's who and relate to the character character with greater ease. I also found with many of the more well known gangster films like reservoir dogs , oceans 11 and the godfather that main characters are dressed quite smartly showing that their more important and of a higher class.