Tuesday 10 January 2012

Conventions of Crime-Drama Films


4,3,2,1 is based on 4 girls who have 3 days they will never forget, spanning to 2 cities. That is if they survive. This shows a storyline with a criminal edge, where the girls are under threat.

Dillon: Do you kiss your mum with that mouth?
Kerrys: Nah, but I kissed yours. 

Is a quote from the film which shows the characters personalities, that they have bad attitudes and are what you call 'mouthy' or 'lippy'. This quote also shows that this genre has a younger target audience.


Harry Brown is a film where Michael Caine plays an elderly ex-serviceman and widower who is looking to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. This film also includes youths (teenagers) who kill harry browns best friend, the whole plot of the film is for harry brown (an old man) to stop the youths from taking over london with crime, drugs and destruction.

Noel Winters: Think you got rid of my old man?
D.S. Terry Hicock: Yeah.
Noel Winters: Well you haven't. He's still out there now, doing what 
he's always done. You know how? I *am* my old man. 
In this part of the film, the head youth, Noel, is being arrested. This quote shows us that there has been two generations of violence and crime on the streets of london where harry brown lives. 


Kidulthood is a film of a day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in West London. This matches our target genre because of the crime and the introduction to the characters. 

Uncle Curtis: [to Trev, holding a box cutter] I want you to carve a "c" from the corner of him eye to the corner of him mouth. 

This quote shows how the family to the youths are encouraging this bad behaviour. 










This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), as he investigates the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.


Mikael Blomkvist: Who knows about this?
Henrik Vanger: Just me, the police, the killer, and now you

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