Bonnie and Clyde

Gangster Characteristics: Guns, gangsters, bank robberies, violence

Film Techniques: Gritty violence, jump cuts, quick editing

Misfits: Bonnie, Clyde, Clyde's brother, they rob banks

Violence: gritty, more realistic violence

Gangster Paradise

The gangster genre involves crime, usually organized. There are different gangs, a lot of the time families, and those gangs are at war. Gangster films are very violent. Gangster films are different today than they were because the censorship codes are not as strict as they were. Criminals can win, like in Pulp Fiction, and cops can lose, like in Reservoir Dogs.

You can't show that sh*t in yo movies!

Since both sides (good and bad if you can call it that) are criminals, so however the story turns out, a criminal (or criminals) is going to win. The police are kind of suckers, and they're connected to the mob. In terms of sex, there's really nothing (yet ;), so it doesn't break the code in that sense. In terms of violence, it follows the code for the most part. There is violence in the film but not alot of blood is shown.

Gangster Films

Gangsters
A leader
Violence
Killing
Drugs
Sex
Crime
Italians/Irish

Film Genre Podcasts

Sci-Fi: Futuristic aspects, CGI, technology
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings (not futuristic setting) Massacre Theater: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Comedy: Makes you laugh, comedies aren't really repetitive. Massacre Theatre: Dude Where's My Car?

Disney Animation: Tangled, Pocahontas, always gorgeous, never satisfied with situation, some sort of struggle, find true love, male characters always chivalrous, sweet, funny, handsome. Massacre Theater: Aladdin

Musicals: Songs, dancing, songs tie the plot together, Singin' in the Rain Massacre Theater: Little Shop of Horrors

Singin' in the Rain questions

1. The scene where the movie is playing and the sound got out of sync with what was going on on the screen. I think alot of comedy involves things going on that aren't really happening, or ironic contrast.
2. It's showing the transition from silent to talkies. Alot of people didn't like the idea of synchronized sound films and it put many silent film actors out of jobs.
3. I think it's a satire of hollywood, I don't really think it's a parody of anything.
4. I think the songs kind of come out of no where, like alot of times they have nothing to do with the plot, although they are entertaining so I'm not complaining.
5. The scene that set up their relationship was when he told her how he felt about her, and it went along with the performance aspect of the film.
6. I disagree. Across the Universe was a great movie and it came out only a few years ago.

A movie about a guy who sings when it's raining

I really enjoyed singing in the rain. The storyline was great, the songs were entertaining and sometimes funny. I will say that sometimes the songs went on for a little too long, but that's probably due to my short attention span. I normally don't really like musicals but I thought this one was a fun movie to watch.